Cant Seem To Figure Out If Install Is Viable?
Apr 15, 2012
I am a college student and looking forward to building a gaming desktop over the summer but have not been able to figure out if this is possible:
My school offers free windows 7 professional and ultimate to all of its students through download (awesome right?) but it brings me to a snag.I am currently on a macbook (my only computer) and was wondering if it was in any way possible to download the files to an external hard drive and install from that?From what i have looked though this is possible, but every place i have seen has the annoying detail of having to be running a previous version of windows in order to do this...
As much as possible i would like to avoid having to get the full disks just because i do not get nearly the same discount.
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