Students = Cheap windows 7

tres · 23 Oct 2009 at 08:01

installed over a questionable copy of vista, all went very well. Not overly quick, but only a mouse click or two for the whole thing.

Working pretty good, all programs set up again. ONly a few little issues - such as occaisionally having to disable then re-enable the network device, as IE and FF show "Destination host unreachable".

ferret face · 23 Oct 2009 at 08:07

Not sure if this has been answered already but I have a Dell laptop pre built with XP.

So I dont know the windows serial number, so can I still install Windows 7 Home student version from scratch?

Cheers

tres · 23 Oct 2009 at 08:27

I chose a clean copy and it never asked me for the previous installation's key

MOOGLEYS · 23 Oct 2009 at 08:43

I have just installed my student copy on my netbook. As i have now installed ultimate on my main Pc. It installed and activated no problem so it suggests that the student download copy is not locked to the original install motherboard...

lcg · 23 Oct 2009 at 09:14

Is this student Upgrade version a retail version? i.e. it won't be locked to one motherboard.

Egon · 23 Oct 2009 at 09:16

ferret face said:
Not sure if this has been answered already but I have a Dell laptop pre built with XP.

So I dont know the windows serial number, so can I still install Windows 7 Home student version from scratch?

Cheers

I'm pretty sure in this instance you can't get the upgrade version. I'll double check as Fire Wizard answered this earlier in the thread.

Edit: It appears actually yes you can - its an OEM version isn't it, so therefore you qualify. You don't need to know your serial key from XP to install Win7.

lcg said:
Is this student Upgrade version a retail version? i.e. it won't be locked to one motherboard.

This question has been answered many times already.

No it won't be locked to 1 motherboard - it is only the license that is different to an off the shelf boxed version. Everything else is the same. Treat it as retail.

lcg · 23 Oct 2009 at 09:21

EgonSpengler said:
This question has been answered many times already.

No it won't be locked to 1 motherboard - it is only the license that is different to an off the shelf boxed version. Everything else is the same. Treat it as retail.

Thanks. Sorry, I know it's a question that must have been asked a lot. I did try looking around the thread before asking, but couldn't find anything. Thanks again

jaybee · 23 Oct 2009 at 09:32

EgonSpengler said:
This question has been answered many times already.

No it won't be locked to 1 motherboard - it is only the license that is different to an off the shelf boxed version. Everything else is the same. Treat it as retail.

Has it? I haven't seen anyone confirm several times that this is the case and I've been reading the thread since the first few posts. Maybe I missed some. But thanks, it's good to know.

MOOGLEYS · 23 Oct 2009 at 09:43

Worked fine for me on a different motherboard. Clean install from my bootdisc using imgburn..

Big red · 23 Oct 2009 at 09:48

I'm loading w7 in virgin drive with retail disc and not loading student key ,how do i perform an upgrade over the top of w7 that i Will have just installed before i activate with student key ?

Egon · 23 Oct 2009 at 09:54

jaybee said:
Has it? I haven't seen anyone confirm several times that this is the case and I've been reading the thread since the first few posts. Maybe I missed some. But thanks, it's good to know.

I'm pretty sure it has, especially over the last few pages. I didn't go and count them however. But there have been a lot of repeated questions and repeated answers so I may have wrongly assumed this was one of them. Appologies to Icq if that is the case

jaybee · 23 Oct 2009 at 09:58

Oh sorry I think maybe we mean different things? ? I was assuming you meant you tested installing and activating Windows 7 on a NEW motherboard. i.e. Having installed and activated Win 7 already on motherboard 1, install and activate on motherboard 2. BigRed above suggests he has tried doing the UPGRADE only on a new motherboard which I always took as a given would work.
I hope this makes sense.

Big red · 23 Oct 2009 at 09:58

i have got the system to the desktop without activating looks nice , to perform the upgrade and use student key do i do the same again but were i havethe 2 options upgrade/ or custom do i click upgrade and reload and add the key which hopefully will work ?

Big red · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:27

i need help here guys iv loaded the retail disc onto a new drive and it gets to the desktop un activated ,
1. how do i upgrade again so that i can load student key as it is still booting from cd but goes straight to the desktop and i cant get to the options any advice ?

stoofa · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:28

OK - this is driving me mad

I've now written the CD from the downloaded files 3 times.
I've used the instructions as above - using the ImgBurn program and pointing it at all of the correct files.
Yes I am selecting "Make image bootable".
Every single one of my 3 DVD's when I attempt to boot come up with:

CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD - Code 5

Any idea what is going on here?

Egon · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:35

Its about time.

I've finally downloaded a non-corrupt version on the 4th attempt !

Checksums all in order

Shamikebab · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:40

stoofa said:
OK - this is driving me mad
I've now written the CD from the downloaded files 3 times.
I've used the instructions as above - using the ImgBurn program and pointing it at all of the correct files.
Yes I am selecting "Make image bootable".
Every single one of my 3 DVD's when I attempt to boot come up with:

CDBOOT: Cannot boot from CD - Code 5

Any idea what is going on here?

Not sure if this link helps or not

http://social.technet.microsoft.com.../thread/0729c411-84be-45b4-8725-67fe49bac4a3/?

jaybee · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:44

EgonSpengler said:
Its about time.

I've finally downloaded a non-corrupt version on the 4th attempt !

Checksums all in order

LOL congrats. Talk about fall at the first (2nd and 3rd hurdle)

lcg · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:49

Has anyone installed this on a formatted/new hard drive with no other hard drives attached with Windows installed on them? Some people seem to be saying that the installer does not ask for an XP/Vista disk to do the upgrade. Is this correct?

MOOGLEYS · 23 Oct 2009 at 10:54

lcg said:
Has anyone installed this on a formatted/new hard drive with no other hard drives attached with Windows installed on them? Some people seem to be saying that the installer does not ask for an XP/Vista disk to do the upgrade. Is this correct?

I have installed it on my netbook. which was formatted and clean before install. It worked fine and activated ok, even though i previously installed and activated it on my main Pc. It does not ask for any previous windows discs.