How to install Windows 7 Beta?

[arthursiew]

I just downloaded it yesterday and then burning the stuff onto a disc didn't work since Boot Camp didn't recognize it. How do I install it? The install file is an exe file.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Then you downloaded the wrong thing.

 

[deriko100]

Well you can try virtual box, VMware fusion, or parallels, I just finished installing windows 7 beta 32 bit on VMware fusion and it works fine, so I recommend vmware fusion also if you dont have the key go here lifehacker has a nice little article about it good luck! Also if you downloaded the wrong thing lifehacker has some nice articles to help you also comment.

 

[r.j.s]

Did you download it from MS, or a torrent?

If it was a torrent, you probably got a virus-infected version. Congrats.

 

[arthursiew]

Oops. I think I had to burn it into an ISO Image onto the disc.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Oops. I think I had to burn it into an ISO Image onto the disc.

You have to burn with Disk Utility, not just the ISO itself.

 

[arthursiew]

It worked! I used ImageBurner to burn it into an ISO image to a disc and it still worked. Thanks.

 

[ceilsuzlega]

I'd suggest having vista on with the bootcamp drivers installed, then put 7 over the top of that, everything should work perfectly that way

 

[Farns514]

Problem: I burned the ISO disc through disk utility, ran boot camp, through in 32 bit windows 7 beta disc, comes up with error 0xc00000e9 I/O error, the only thing that is plugged into my new MacBook unibody is the power cord. I can't get back to the mac OS x operating system, it will only allow me to keep on trying to reboot after I power down and then power up.

Any guesses or help will be greatly appreciated

 

[r.j.s]

Hold x to force OS X to boot.