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Mitsuru
  
| | #1 posted October 20, 2009 at 12:01pm (EST) |
I have Vista right now. I just got the laptop hence the delay. But I'd like to buy Windows 7 for cheap. I still have a .edu account if that'd help at all.
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antwaan
| | #2 posted October 20, 2009 at 12:23pm (EST) |
http://windows7.digitalriver.com/store/mswpus/en_U...
there's that route
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Mitsuru
| | #3 posted October 20, 2009 at 12:25pm (EST) |
Aha, thank you.
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macman16
| | #4 posted October 23, 2009 at 10:53am (EST) |
The 64 bit professional download from that site is actually the full version. Saved me a lot of effort trying to find my vista disk on the clean install. Did it all last night, about an hour download, installed checks out perfect. |
willyum
  
| | #5 posted October 23, 2009 at 5:55pm (EST) |
Nice. Does this work if the .EDU email address just forwards your email?
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antwaan
| | #6 posted October 24, 2009 at 2:59am (EST) |
is there any reason to not get the pro version? its the same price. also, it says you need to buy the extra $13 disc if you want to upgrade from vista 32 to windows 7 64 bit. is this true? and for the pro version as well?
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worm
| | #7 posted October 24, 2009 at 1:05pm (EST) |
yep from what i have heard all you have to have is a college email address and you can get it for 29.99 or even get 7 professional for 29.99 as well. mise-well get the pro if you ask me. BTW I got it free through my college's affiliation with Microsoft (ITT-Tech) |
Grimlock
 
| | #8 posted October 24, 2009 at 3:50pm (EST) |
Like I said in another thread, I'm willing to sell my edu email and the confirmed password to get 7 for someone. |
Jeffro
 
| | #9 posted October 25, 2009 at 1:48pm (EST) |
Does this offer expire? I went and got my password already.
For whatever reason I am able to use my community college e-mail from 2008 to get this, but I'm kinda broke right now but would like to eventually get it.
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willyum
| | #10 posted October 25, 2009 at 2:39pm (EST) |
Jeffro wrote:
> Does this offer expire? I went and got my password already.
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That's what I was wondering, as I'm in a similar situation. Also, this is only for an upgrade version, right?
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Jeffro
| | #11 posted October 25, 2009 at 5:21pm (EST) |
Yeah, I need to read more about this. I assume I can upgrade XP with any of them?
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NS_Talon
| | #12 posted October 25, 2009 at 6:01pm (EST) |
You can't upgrade from XP. You can use the upgrade version on XP, but you'll have to do a clean install (which I'd recommend anyway). |
Jeffro
| | #13 posted October 25, 2009 at 6:40pm (EST) |
Cool, thanks for the info. That's what I was going to do anyways.
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Tubaker
| | #14 posted October 26, 2009 at 11:01am (EST) |
hmm .. does this erase the files already on my PC? |
antwaan
| | #15 posted October 26, 2009 at 12:28pm (EST) |
not if you're doing a straight upgrade and don't do a clean install. (eg. vista 32bit to windows 7 32 bit)
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RagingShadow07
| | #16 posted October 26, 2009 at 2:04pm (EST) |
For an Upgrade path it has to be the same OS version. For example, if you have Vista Premium 32-bit, you have to go to 7 Premium 32-bit. You can't go from Premium to Ultimate or 32 to 64 bit. Doing so requires a clean install, I believe.
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antwaan
| #17 posted October 26, 2009 at 2:37pm (EST)
edited October 26, 2009 at 2:38pm (EST) |
you're correct. I went from vista home 32 to 7 professional 64 via clean install with a self burned iso dvd out of the files i was provided
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therainstormlord
| | #18 posted October 26, 2009 at 5:02pm (EST) |
willyum wrote:
> Nice. Does this work if the .EDU email address just forwards
> your email?
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yes it appears to forward just fine -- got the email but haven't bought yet.
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SteveAllen
| | #19 posted October 26, 2009 at 5:53pm (EST) |
antwaan wrote:
> you're correct. I went from vista home 32 to 7 professional 64 via
> clean install with a self burned iso dvd out of the files i was provided
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when you do a clean install like this, how does W7 verify you had Vista installed in the first place? |
antwaan
| | #20 posted October 26, 2009 at 9:22pm (EST) |
i'm assuming the motherboard because i did a clean install on a brand new hard drive and it never asked for anything. i assumed i would maybe have to have vista already installed even if i was doing a clean install but everything went smooth.
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therainstormlord
| | #21 posted October 27, 2009 at 11:49am (EST) |
SteveAllen wrote:
> antwaan wrote:
>> you're correct. I went from vista home 32 to 7 professional
> 64 via
>> clean install with a self burned iso dvd out of the files
> i was provided
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> when you do a clean install like this, how does W7 verify
> you had Vista installed in the first place?
You should be able to install it onto another partition. I'm pretty sure that's how I went about installing an upgrade version of Vista. I didn't want to install on top of XP, so I snagged a *nix version of parition magic, created a new one and installed to there.
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Outinthedark
| #22 posted October 27, 2009 at 11:52am (EST)
edited October 27, 2009 at 2:07pm (EST) |
Do you need a DVD drive for these downloads to burn the iso? This post is confusing me and my DVD drive is not working at the moment...
antwaan wrote:
> you're correct. I went from vista home 32 to 7 professional 64 via
> clean install with a self burned iso dvd out of the files i was provided
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*edit*
Ah the exe just unpacks the .box files and you can burn that. Sweet! :D
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Outinthedark
| | #23 posted October 27, 2009 at 8:48pm (EST) |
Got Windows 7 up and running on the macbook pro. $30 for the Pro version works perfectly but couldn't upgrade from a clean install of Vista Ultimate for some reason.
BTW 20 GB install is ridiculous. Vista was 12 or so why is 7 so damn large? Partitioned out 50 out of 300 for the Windows side of Bootcamp since OS X would be the main platform but would have allocated a little more if I knew Windows 7 took up so much space.
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Grimlock
| | #24 posted October 28, 2009 at 12:11am (EST) |
My school gave it to me for free; go figure for being a comp major for a few semesters. |
jaric
 
| | #25 posted October 28, 2009 at 4:16pm (EST) |
Australia.edu has free web based email for those of you who are looking for a .edu email. A friend got his australia.edu address recently and was able to take advantage of the deal in the second post.
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RiseAgainst540
| | #26 posted October 29, 2009 at 8:37pm (EST) |
An administrator is reviewing your account for approval. Due to increased demand there may be a delay in approving your email account, priority is however given to users who donate $20.00 or more for this service. To donate, please click the donate button to the left.
Sounds scammy to me.... |
jaric
| #27 posted November 3, 2009 at 4:53pm (EST)
edited November 3, 2009 at 4:55pm (EST) |
I signed up for an australia.edu account and it was approved earlier today. It's kinda funny - it's gmail with an australia.edu address. Anyway, I used the address for the above Windows 7 offer and got my confirmation email within a couple of minutes.
And australia.edu looks like a general website for universities in Australia. The message you get when you sign up does sound fishy, but I signed up for an account over the weekend and was approved within a week without donating anything.
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