If you’ve been eyeing the downloadable student edition upgrade of Windows 7 with that sweet, sweet $US29/AU$50 price, you might want to hold off. Microsoft has acknowledged that downloads from Digital River, the provider of student edition upgrades, are experiencing problems.
Apparently Microsoft decided to release the upgrade as an installer instead of an ISO file, and it’s causing all kinds of headaches. Users are reporting that after the installer goes through the “Unloading the Box” step, an error occurs and the installation fails.
There are workarounds available, like instructions to build your own ISO out of the installer, but it’s probably best to wait a bit until this is all sorted out. [PC World]
Usman
Monday, October 26, 2009 at 1:47 PMAgreed.. iw as lookign for an Iso fiel after downloading the upgrade. Took me frustrating few hours to convert it to an iso file.
There are actually 4 files that you get// Took me a while to figure out which ones to include in iso and if you include all of them its way over a single layer DVD capacity.
Just copied installer along with package opening software to a DVD and installed from the DVD without a hiccup.
aj
Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 9:44 AMupgrading from xp worked fine for me. what’s the point of putting the installer files into an iso? same with win7RC, i installed after extracting the installer files OUT of the iso.
the original download gave me 3 files. you run one of them which makes a 2.37GB folder, which you can chuck on USB stick or dvd. then run the setup file.
It’s worth noting that when you do the purchase, you can pay an extra $15 for the physical disc. Which makes on-selling nice and easy for any students out to make an easy buck (i got 2 copies cos i have 2 uni email addresses!)