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Hello,
First off: I am not trying to install an illegal copy of Win 7! I have a product key and I paid for it but it was the student download straight from the Microsoft Store with no DVD.
I am running a 2009 iMac Core 2 Duo (2.93 GHz, 3 GB RAM) as a dual boot setup. I have Mountain Lion fully upgraded on my Mac side, and I was running a legit copy of Windows XP SP2 on the Windows partition.
I hadn't been using PC recently but just went back to engineering grad school so I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7. I ran the system check and confirmed I could run x64 if I wanted to so I decided to go ahead and order the x64 edition. The backup disc option was "out of stock" so I had to just download the file.
There are two files - the x64 .exe and x64 .iso. I downloaded the .exe but since my Windows was x32 it could not run. I figured that I would need to boot from a DVD burned from the .iso. I looked up several different instructions and burned 3 DVDs in three different ways.
1) the downloaded .iso straight to a DVD using ImgBurn on XP
2) redownloaded .iso on Mac OS X, used Disk Utility
3) followed this instruction Make bootable iso from student d/l - Windows 7 Forums to burn the x64 .exe to a disc from XP using the utility in the link
All 3 discs are the same: XP won't run it while in XP and I can't boot using the DVD. Every time is the same. I select that disk from either XP's Boot Camp Assistant, or Mac OS X's Boot Camp Assistant, it just displays "press any key to boot from CD/DVD...." and goes straight to XP. Mashing the keyboard does not work. I have the Wireless keyboard.
Is there something I'm missing here? Or is it as simple as running to Best Buy and picking up a cheap USB wired keyboard to press a dang key? I don't remember having this problem with the official Windows XP install cd.
Thanks!
First off: I am not trying to install an illegal copy of Win 7! I have a product key and I paid for it but it was the student download straight from the Microsoft Store with no DVD.
I am running a 2009 iMac Core 2 Duo (2.93 GHz, 3 GB RAM) as a dual boot setup. I have Mountain Lion fully upgraded on my Mac side, and I was running a legit copy of Windows XP SP2 on the Windows partition.
I hadn't been using PC recently but just went back to engineering grad school so I wanted to upgrade to Windows 7. I ran the system check and confirmed I could run x64 if I wanted to so I decided to go ahead and order the x64 edition. The backup disc option was "out of stock" so I had to just download the file.
There are two files - the x64 .exe and x64 .iso. I downloaded the .exe but since my Windows was x32 it could not run. I figured that I would need to boot from a DVD burned from the .iso. I looked up several different instructions and burned 3 DVDs in three different ways.
1) the downloaded .iso straight to a DVD using ImgBurn on XP
2) redownloaded .iso on Mac OS X, used Disk Utility
3) followed this instruction Make bootable iso from student d/l - Windows 7 Forums to burn the x64 .exe to a disc from XP using the utility in the link
All 3 discs are the same: XP won't run it while in XP and I can't boot using the DVD. Every time is the same. I select that disk from either XP's Boot Camp Assistant, or Mac OS X's Boot Camp Assistant, it just displays "press any key to boot from CD/DVD...." and goes straight to XP. Mashing the keyboard does not work. I have the Wireless keyboard.
Is there something I'm missing here? Or is it as simple as running to Best Buy and picking up a cheap USB wired keyboard to press a dang key? I don't remember having this problem with the official Windows XP install cd.
Thanks!