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Hey,

Does the student download package allow you to burn a 64bit installer which you can then use to format a harddrive and install it on it? It seems to say about buying a DVD with the same thing on it :confused:
 
Spitfir3 said:
Hey,

Does the student download package allow you to burn a 64bit installer which you can then use to format a harddrive and install it on it? It seems to say about buying a DVD with the same thing on it :confused:
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The actual 'package' you download doesn't but you can make your own DVD quite easily, (or not), from the downloaded media. You can also download a ready made .iso file which can be written to DVD without having to do much at all. Either method means you don't have to buy the DVD. See earlier pages of this quite long thread for details. Page 10 is one that come to mind, some of the last five or so pages mention the .iso file.
 
I went back few pages but with no avail...

I am student in a school listed as being able to be member of MSDN. But in my school there has been no info about this possibility.

Where can I sign up, and how do I then prove my valid studentship? All our computer teachers are from different schools so they don't know about what's happening in my our school.
I don't study computers.

Also what is difference between OEM and RETAIL? surely I can't just buy retail and install it on x number of machines I have home? My 2 computers and 3 computers of my BF?
-Heidi
(edit: this will come for new computer)
 
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Can someone help me out with this. I've got home premium retail installed and activated on my pc at home and I have one of these student pro upgrades on it's way in the post to me.

What I want to know is can I use the pro upgrade key in "anytime upgrade" to make the home premium machine pro, and then use the original home premium key on another machine?

I know it's a bit convoluted, but I want to use the home premium key on an HTPC and just want to be sure that the anytime upgrade doesn't invalidate that original key.

Thanks
 
mrk said:
You can't use an Upgrade edition key on a retail install unfortunately.
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I did, but only because the upgrade disk was being a pain in the backside (I got it working in the end by reading this thread, but how retarded of MS to not have an ISO download!).

Turns out it does the same job as the RTM disk anyway, as I upgraded xp 32 to win7 64.
So my upgrade key worked fine on a retail.
 
Anyone had problems with the Digital River download manager?

I'm downloading the ISO - now half way through and its stopped saying the file cannot be found on the server.

Oddly my progress is on 3075.30mb of... 6225.39mb? :confused:

When I went to bed last night I'm pretty sure the total file size was 3gb not 6gb. Whats going on?
 
Here are the checksums I got for the x64 Pro ISO which is 3GB:

CRC32: 502C42C1
MD5: 7B7AF5FE3A01E9FD76DE4DACB45A796B

I personally didn't have any problems with the downloader but others have.
 
Anyone got any ideas about this? Says home premium when I sign up, but only pro is available when I log in. Would like to in place install though :(
 
I also get a similar thing, when logging in it only gives me the option to buy the premium upgrade and not the pro upgrade.
Hopw do you go about getting the pro version?
 
Figured my issue out, just signed up through the Ultimatesteal website rather than the one on the original post to this thread.
Got a copy of Office too whilst I was at it
 
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