Win7 Academic Offer Download Problem

[Gerry]

I've purchased Win7 through the academic offer, received the e-mails and downloaded the files. But whenever I try to expand the files I get the attached message. I've tried multiple times and re-downloaded the files. I have full rights on my PC, and the folder is definately not read only. I end up with an "expandedSetup" folder, details of which are:

 

Size: 3.01 GB (3,239,836,668 bytes)

Size on disk: 3.01 GB (3,241,648,128 bytes)

Contains: 874 Files, 199 Folders

 

Does this look correct? It may be that the files have completed expanding...

[pooley]

Have you enough space on the drive?

[difinity]

A poster called Ojustaboo, seems to have a solution over on The Register comments

 

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You need to download the MS Windows Automation Install Kit, and that converts your downloaded files to an iso.

[Avalon]

have you tried running the setup.exe (or something similar) in the expandedsetup folder?

[computer_expert]

its a known problem and i think it was something to do with digital river (the distribution partner for MS).

 

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[Gerry]

have you tried running the setup.exe (or something similar) in the expandedsetup folder?

 

Not tried running setup.exe yet. Just checking if all the files have been "expanded", because I don't want to start installing and then just before the end find I have a file(s) missing!

 

Can anyone who's succesfully expanded the Digital River download confirm how many files there should be?