LEGAL Windows 7 Download Links (Just like Vista before!!!)

You should be fine, just burn the iso and boot

 

yea, i followed it completly and got no errors, so i guess im good to go...ty for the quick response!!

 

another question...are these versions the full retail or upgrade versions?

 

basically retail, you can do clean installs or upgrades

 

The source has updated with spanish, dutch and french links so ill add those soon

 

One more language not posted on mydigitallife.info:
Korean Pro x86
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-79668/Win7-P-Retail-ko-kr-x86.exe
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-79668/setup1.box
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-79668/setup2.box
Korean Pro x64
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-79971/Win7-P-Retail-ko-kr-x64.exe
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-79971/setup1.box
http://msft-dnl.digitalrivercontent.net/msvista/pub/X15-79971/setup2.box

BTW. it's German not Dutch.

 

Thanks, ill add those too when i get the time (and give you credit )

LOL about the german thing, ill make sure its right when i post the links (haha i should know too, ive only been learning for 4 years )

 

Thanks!!!!!!

 

Thanks OP for all your help, I really appreicate it. I am still awaiting my free upgrade disk but really need to get going, so can I clean install Win7 pro 64 using the iso and then activate it when I receive my product key in the post. My questions is essentially - Can I use an OEM key to activate a retail copy? Has anyone actually done this and its worked?

 

I take it that these are the exact same links you are given when you purchase from Digital River, correct? I'm confused because I believe I qualify to purchase Windows 7 Professional for $30 but when I add it to my cart it lists it as an upgrade. Even if I do get a license key from them would I be able to use the full version to install a fresh copy of Pro (despite that it lists the version as an upgrade when added to cart)?

EDIT: It seems that more confusion has cleared up as users have said that Vista Home Premium can be upgraded to Professional. I think I got it mixed up in my head when I read that if you opt for the free upgrade and you only have Home Premium Vista you'd get the same for 7 etc. If I'm not wrong you guys can disregard this post as I've found my answer.

 

Does any one know?

 

ny355145: Yes, that's the idea. Just be sure to get the Home Premium, because that's the license key you have.

Also, the installer will do a clean install, so back up all your files first.

 

Hi,

I believe my old desktop is running an illegal copy of Vista Ultimate, do you think if it will work?
Thanks.

 

This is not allowed to be discussed according to forum rules.

If you do a clean install and buy a windows 7 license, this will work guaranteed

 

Thanks, I think that's what i need to do too.

 

Velocity, I just got my new HP laptop in and of course they didn't send me a copy of Windows 7. I just bought a pack of DVD-R to back up my computer with. Can I use DVD-R to burn Windows 7 on?

Also, what do I need to download before I download your 3 links? (i.e. Winzip)

 

isnt of having the all in one windows 7 dvd, is there anyway to just get a link to windows 7 ultimate?

 

Can someone be so kind as to walk me through the easiest / quickest way to do this BUT I AM USING and XP PRO machine NOT VISTA ?

I have copied off everything from my (fast) Flash Voyager 16GB USB stick, ready to format to whatever (NTFS?)

* DO I make a partition whilst formating - so that I can KEEP the Win7 bootbale iso on it (and then have other partition with all my other files and programs etc on it*)

* In fact would that mean I end up with 3 partitions in fact (as you have to have a boot partition anyway???)

Thanks

 

can we just open the ei.cfg file in notepad or something and change it from professional to ultimate to have it as an ultimate install insted of doing an all in one disk? I found the bin patcher, but it will not work...i get target size unexpected error when using bin patcher...

 

You can use the dvd-r that you already have (the iso is around 3 gb)

You don't need any other software besides something to burn the iso

 

the disc has all versions, there is no way to get just the ultimate disc as a download

just delete the ei.cfg file and you can chose which version to install at setup, or you can edit the ei.cfg file in notepad to make it ultimate only

 

You can just use the microsoft win7 iso tool which is much simpler:
http://store.microsoft.com/Help/ISO-Tool

 

4 hr download just for the 1st setup . Why doesn't Microsoft just allow anyone who has a Windows 7 product key to login to their website and have access to downloading the ISO?

 

This should be stickied. I had to look for it and it was on page 2.

 

just updated the guide with Korean (thanks grimskies), French, German, and Spanish language versions

 

the download would probably take the same amount of time even if it was an iso from microsoft

it won't be that bad anyway, the 1st box file is the largest, after that the files arent that big

 

Yep - ta - I spotted that a few pages back, just after I posted

 

OK (SUCCESS) UPDATE

* If you follow everything carefully - yep - not only does it work ... but I cannot believe (with a fast USB stick) just how quickly I got W7 to load on my laptop - awesome !!

* I opted for W7 Home Premium (as someone has suggested that as my laptop is limited to 32 bit structure ,any higher W7 would be wasted).

Observations:

1) Samsung 128GB MLC SSD (HP P/N: 500586-001) works great so far .. BUT ...

2) ... I did not do 'format' or anything when I got to that stage in the W7 install. W7 (Home Premium) seems to NOT have recognised it as an SSD. Neither does Everest or any other software. If I go into Defragmenter ... the SSD (C: drive) is there (ie NOT excluded as I thought it is meant to be).

3) Although running very nicely now (1), my observations in (2) lead me to believe that the performance of my Samsung SSD may degrade far faster than other SSDs ?? i) W7 seems to NOT have recognised it as such (this was main factor for loading W7 with my new SSD) ...and ... ii) Will the rumoured formware upgrade for this SSD mean that I will have Trim, GC (or both ) AND the firmware will make W7 recognise it as a SSD (if I reformat and repeat a fresh install again) ?

* I noticed that pretty much everything worked STRAIGHT after install WITHOUT needing drivers yet! You would never get my old Dell Laptops looking so seemingly 'OK' without loading the correct drivers.

* Some drivers (945 Express Chipset, Conextant Modem, 02Micro SmartCard Reader) were actually loaded at very 1st W7 generated Microsoft Update procedure).

* So far so good - but I think (like Vista that I have seen, but not used before) .. a lot of the desktop 'eye candy' is unnecessary & just a resource hog. OK - so a bit more of a 'Mac' look - but Mac OS is a hell of a lot more efficient and lean !

-

The really good news is that I have been interchanging my 2.5" HDD (with XP Pro) and the new SSD (W7 HP) + booting them up without worry:

i) My 2nd HDD drive caddies only take PATA IDE 2.5" drives
ii) My currrent method does away with worrying about dual boot or whatever for now.

 

Does anyone get any errors with trying to get the 64 bit english version to work? I download all the files, even using the downthemall program. When I attempt to run the exe I get an error right at the end about folder rights like I may not have access. But I am on a simple machine, also tested it on multiple machines, and i get the same message each time

 

do you have all of the files extracted in the expandedsetup folder?

 

Yeup so I may just be a total idiot or the brainfart of the month. I guess I was truely getting the error in terms of doing that setup on a 32 bit machine with that 64 bit setup so that was giving the error. So right now I am getting the iso created.

Sorry for the mixup, after this time to see if i can get it setup on a flash drive!

 

added a note to the OP about the iso>usb tool due to increased requests in this thread/elsewhere in the forum

 

sweeeeeetttt

 

the lack of MD5 hash check was driving me nuts... so i DL'ed both and made iso's with and without the ei.cfg file

x64 unmolested:
CRC32: DAE10CB6
MD5: 8F60F009E53AAC1714C0CC076BC313A4
SHA-1: 2D2F6688D773B6593DF82CB096034A48460D33EC
size: 3.02 GB (3,244,328,960 bytes)
size on disk: 3.02 GB (3,244,331,008 bytes)

x86 unmolested:
CRC32: 7459F27D
MD5: 5AB923831D36F3F149FFC068B2D63B72
SHA-1: 7635901AC8190BB90A596AD916DEDC185F607466
size: 2.34 GB (2,523,011,072 bytes)
size on disk: 2.34 GB (2,523,013,120 bytes)

i used hashtab

i won't bother with hashing the iso files without the ei.cfg since it'll differ from user to user

i was also seeing the "unloading the box" error only for the x64 version, since i was running win7 RC x86

anyone else want to confirm the hash?

 

Hey guys,

Please excuse my ignorance, but do you use the x86 or x64 download if you want a 64bit copy of Windows 7??

Thanks for any help I look forward to hearing from you.

Rusty

 

x64 download for 64 bit Windows installation files.

 

Thanks for that

 

Once again, I'm sure this is an easy one for everyone:

I followed the instructions and when I ran the command in the 'Run Box' a little black screen flashed up and then disappeared before I could see or read it and then nothing else happened ie no ISO file.

Anyone got any ideas?

Cheers

Rusty

EDIT: I did try it twice and I did try typing and copy/pasting the comd line.

 

Nevermind, I was trying to extract it into System32.

What does editing files in my System32 have to do with burning the Windows 7 download to a bootable DVD?

 

i think i may be having a similar problem as ConfusedRusty.

I did everything up until here just fine:

when i run the first line, it seems to "work", but the second line says something like "can't find C:\expandedSetup"

and i don't see an Win7.iso on my C: drive...

Am i mistakenly running this as two seperately lines and it should all be typed out as one line?

PS ty for guide! i don't feel like waiting the month or so until my disks arive

 

i can't help you with the first part ("cant find c:\expandedsetup)

but for that second issue about not being able to find the iso, try changing the location of the final output

i changed mine to the desktop:
c:\users\m\desktop\win7x86.iso

your user name will differ, obviously, and also i named it win7x86 since i was making both versions at the time

still waiting for someone else to confirm that hash (for the unmolested, unaltered version)

 

if you hit the windows key, click on run, type "cmd" without the quotes, it should open the command prompt (or if this is on vista or win7 RC, just hit the windows key and type "cmd")

this should make the command prompt stay open on your screen

if that's not what you're talking about, ignore this comment

 

Ok, looks like I successfully burned the Win7.iso onto my DVD+R. I'm about to do a clean install, but how should I manage my partitions?

My HP came with a 2.7 GB partition labeled "Recovery". Is there anyway I can keep that and just delete the partition I'm using now?

 

You need to open up command prompt, then type the commands, not type it into the run box

you have to type it in and execute it as one line, into a command prompt window, not the run box, and make sure you copied the expandedSetup folder to C:\

 

You can keep the recovery partition, just format the old windows partition in the win7 installer and don't touch the recovery partition

 

HAHA thanks for the responses! i was typing it as two lines. All in one line worked like a charm.

I like it, but so far nothing spectacular

TY AGAIN!!!

 

Thanks worked like a charm.

 

The hashes you created do not match mine . However, the size of the ISOs you created matches mine exactly for both x64 and x86 versions, byte for byte.

I have also created the x86 version of the Windows 7 disk twice and even then, both their hashes differ. My guess is that oscdimg.exe creates the ISO by joining the different files in the expandedSetup folder randomly, which changes the hash.

Therefore, I think it will be more useful to generate the hashes for the downloaded files namely setup1.box, steup2.box and the extractor for both x86 and x64 versions.

Windows 7 x86

Setup1.box
CRC32: FF3FE6C4
MD5: D5CC1E45D6EB57B8500DBCF622F39637
SHA-1: EDAA9BA294EA7E49D4FE731E81CDD1E3C6168F51
Size: 2.03 GB (2,188,587,724 bytes)
Size on disk: 2.03GB (2,188,591,104 bytes)

Setup2.box
CRC32: 7B580BD4
MD5: FAB28838A97E875D27E4E7239F42131C
SHA-1: 78D8ED22DF4FCDA102B72D41420D9854DC0DF7B4
Size: 137 MB (144,277,870 bytes)
Size on Disk: 137 MB (144,281,600 bytes)

Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x86
CRC32: 2AD40CF3
MD5: 204D02EA3AB587B70621A7EC99B3F1B8
SHA-1: 60BA243A05261AA7A3AF9A3ADF509E8069B6E891
Size: 69.7 MB (73,174,624 bytes)
Size on Disk: 69.7 MB (73,175,040 bytes)

Windows 7 x64

Setup1.box
CRC32: 192DDFDF
MD5: 7B29E21B7F6BC0850E65085205B5EAFE
SHA-1: 47D4131ACD1DA3A96F19244FE4D840EB18C2057C
Size: 2.66 GB (2,860,840,667 bytes)
Size on Disk: 2.66 GB (2,860,843,008 bytes)

Setup2.box
CRC32: 35D27FBF
MD5: 87DCC913A7BBBFCFA2C2526C2E894F97
SHA-1: 4076CA5224D6D2E7338AB286BF31912D8404E016
Size: 160 MB (167,815,816 bytes)
Size on Disk: 160 MB (167,817,216 bytes)

Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x64
CRC32: 4AC9D976
MD5: 73D13A1000069E372F7478CF1C426B7A
SHA-1: 6B7D87BF0BE0D3BAE4A5E4550260BDF6A5600534
Size: 75.9 MB (79,645,544 bytes)
Size on Disk: 75.9 MB (79,646,720 bytes)

All hashes are generated using HashTab.

 

good call... this is what i have for the dl'ed files:

win7 x86:
setup1.box
CRC32: FF3FE6C4
MD5: D5CC1E45D6EB57B8500DBCF622F39637
SHA-1: EDAA9BA294EA7E49D4FE731E81CDD1E3C6168F51
size: 2.03 GB (2,188,587,724 bytes)
size on disk: 2.03 GB (2,188,591,104 bytes)

setup2.box
CRC32: 7B580BD4
MD5: FAB28838A97E875D27E4E7239F42131C
SHA-1: 78D8ED22DF4FCDA102B72D41420D9854DC0DF7B4
size: 137 MB (144,277,870 bytes)
size on disk: 137 MB (144,281,600 bytes)

Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x86
CRC32: 2AD40CF3
MD5: 204D02EA3AB587B70621A7EC99B3F1B8
SHA-1: 60BA243A05261AA7A3AF9A3ADF509E8069B6E891
size: 69.7 MB (73,174,624 bytes)
size on disk: 69.7 MB (73,175,040 bytes)


win 7 x64:
setup1.box
CRC32: 192DDFDF
MD5: 7B29E21B7F6BC0850E65085205B5EAFE
SHA-1: 47D4131ACD1DA3A96F19244FE4D840EB18C2057C
size: 2.66 GB (2,860,840,667 bytes)
size on disk: 2.66 GB (2,860,843,008 bytes)

setup2.box
CRC32: 35D27FBF
MD5: 87DCC913A7BBBFCFA2C2526C2E894F97
SHA-1: 4076CA5224D6D2E7338AB286BF31912D8404E016
size: 160 MB (167,815,816 bytes)
size on disk: 160 MB (167,817,216 bytes)

Win7-P-Retail-en-us-x64
CRC32: 4AC9D976
MD5: 73D13A1000069E372F7478CF1C426B7A
SHA-1: 6B7D87BF0BE0D3BAE4A5E4550260BDF6A5600534
size: 75.9 MB (79,645,544 bytes)
size on disk: 75.9 MB (79,646,720 bytes)


looks good to me

 

the source has md5s for the downloaded files:
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/10/23/windows-7-32-bit-x86-direct-download-links/