Windows 7 Professional issue

CharlieAlbert · 20 Aug 2010 at 13:39

My sister just brought a student steal windows 7 upgrade. Which was a mistake as, of course, it isn't an upgrade, it's a package. Her laptop is Home Premium version. She's cleaned her laptop. Her iso was faulty so after burning 8 disks we've redownloaded it. Is they away around this? As in apply the prof version to her laptop???

marmalade · 20 Aug 2010 at 14:15

Has she bought a home premium Windows 7?
After downloading windows 7 one should use a hash check in order to check that it is an exact copy of the original. Very unusual to have a corrupt download. I assume you have a key/serial for the download?

CharlieAlbert · 20 Aug 2010 at 16:39

We do yes. It was a Prof version.

marmalade · 20 Aug 2010 at 17:05

Then just wack it on. Always burn slowly x4 and verify using something like Imgburn (which is free) I assume you aint got the disks for home Premium but have the key/serials

Aod · 21 Aug 2010 at 08:30

marmalade said:
Then just wack it on. Always burn slowly x4 and verify using something like Imgburn (which is free) I assume you aint got the disks for home Premium but have the key/serials

the whole "burning slowly" thing's never been proven to have any beneficial effect at all.

i've burnt loads (70+) of windows DVD's for uni/etc and i always burn at maxspeed. never had a coaster yet!

Raumarik · 21 Aug 2010 at 09:07

slow burning was more for CDs in the early days when some CDROM drives had problems reading CDs, it's never really been true about DVD drives. We use to have problems with 8x burnt cds on our 2x CDROM units at work many years ago, would work far better if burnt slower but then again that was probably a mix of poor recordable media (CDRs) and iffy CDROM drives

marmalade · 21 Aug 2010 at 09:11

Halfmad said:
slow burning was more for CDs in the early days when some CDROM drives had problems reading CDs, it's never really been true about DVD drives. We use to have problems with 8x burnt cds on our 2x CDROM units at work many years ago, would work far better if burnt slower but then again that was probably a mix of poor recordable media (CDRs) and iffy CDROM drives

This is entirely at variance with my own experience! Burn slow burn sure! - particularly with debatable quality media and amongst even the best there are the odd bits of crap.