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What can I do with my digital river windows 7 key?

slayer202

slayer202

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I bought and downloaded a copy of windows 7 professional 64bit upgrade edition with a student discount. I didn't choose to get a backup DVD copy and I'm not regretting it because I want to try and do a clean install on a new hard drive since I heard its possible.

Do I have any options? The download included an EXE and 2 BOX files, no idea what those are. I'm guessing these won't boot from a disc though?

I'm thinking my only option is to find someone with a copy and borrow that to install? Would I need a pro upgrade copy, or would any 64 bit copy work?

If I found an illegitimate copy and used that with a legit key, would I have problems?

Any help/suggestions would be appeciated!
 
13Gigatons said:
They have the ISO files up now:

32-bit

64-bit
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Hey, I have a question. I have Windows XP 32-bit. Would it be possible to download the 64bit editions ISO files and install it from a virtual disk? I heard that people can't run the 64bit windows 7 installer from windows xp 32bit. But thats an Exe.file. Would a iso.file be different? Could I install it that way?

Also, I have the upgrade version. Is it still going to be able to validate that I have a previous installation? And how do I show windows 7 upgrade that I have a previous installation of windows? Sorry for the bumrush of questions, I'm getting really frustrated and need some answers.. lol... thanks in advance!
 
Protocept00 said:
Hey, I have a question. I have Windows XP 32-bit. Would it be possible to download the 64bit editions ISO files and install it from a virtual disk? I heard that people can't run the 64bit windows 7 installer from windows xp 32bit. But thats an Exe.file. Would a iso.file be different? Could I install it that way?

Also, I have the upgrade version. Is it still going to be able to validate that I have a previous installation? And how do I show windows 7 upgrade that I have a previous installation of windows? Sorry for the bumrush of questions, I'm getting really frustrated and need some answers.. lol... thanks in advance!
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You would need to do a clean install if you are going from 32 to 64 I believe, regardless of what kind of files you have. That shouldn't be a problem with verifying you have a previous copy. Not even sure it matters as there are ways to install fresh copies on a new pc. Not sure how those methods work though, so I'm not sure you need to verify your old copy somehow.
 
slayer202 said:
You would need to do a clean install if you are going from 32 to 64 I believe, regardless of what kind of files you have. That shouldn't be a problem with verifying you have a previous copy. Not even sure it matters as there are ways to install fresh copies on a new pc. Not sure how those methods work though, so I'm not sure you need to verify your old copy somehow.
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Yeah, I know I have to do a clean install, but am I able to run a clean install by booting off of a virtual disk drive, instead restarting with a dvd in the drive? Or am I better off just burning the iso files onto a disk and running it off disk. My problem is that it's going to be a awhile before I get my windows 7 dvd and for obvious reasons I'd like to install windows 7 now, rather than waiting another few weeks. According to the student site, the disk is required for installing 64bit.
 
Protocept00 said:
Yeah, I know I have to do a clean install, but am I able to run a clean install by booting off of a virtual disk drive, instead restarting with a dvd in the drive? Or am I better off just burning the iso files onto a disk and running it off disk. My problem is that it's going to be a awhile before I get my windows 7 dvd and for obvious reasons I'd like to install windows 7 now, rather than waiting another few weeks. According to the student site, the disk is required for installing 64bit.
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check the stuff thats posted in this very thread. there is an ISO file that will hopefully work, and the link I posted tells you how to turn the digitalriver files into a bootable disc which should be easy enough.
 
slayer202 said:
check the stuff thats posted in this very thread. there is an ISO file that will hopefully work, and the link I posted tells you how to turn the digitalriver files into a bootable disc which should be easy enough.
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Can you let me know if booting from an iso. file off of a disk works? I've never done it before... heh.
 
Protocept00 said:
Can you let me know if booting from an iso. file off of a disk works? I've never done it before... heh.
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well it did just let me run it without burning. I'm not sure you'll be able install it with all the restarts it probably makes, considering daemon tools won't be running 100% of the time?
 
The ISO files are bootable.

Burn it to a DVD or flash drive and Clean install it without a key.

Now proceed to use one of these options: Link
 
Just bought the win 7 pro 64bit from digital river. Also downloaded the 64bit ISO image from link above. Can anyone confirm that if I burn the ISO and use the Product Key from Digital River will it work. I would rather do that than get it from the download link from digital River...Thank you
 
I ordered the backup for Windows 7 X64 but I used the ISO to do a clean install because the backup took so long to get here.

The key worked with a clean install, so I believe it is a full retail key.
 
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