Used "restore media" Windows 7 PRO on EliteBook 8460p. Now, will not connect to Ethernet to update.

[alan150]

Paul,

Just Saw your message regarding Windows 7 SP1 and a DVD.

That was one of the things I had planed on telling/asking you about.

When I downloaded the Windows 7 SP 1 to that new Kingston 8 GB flash drive, which I asked you about, using the older slow as mollasis Toshiba Satellite laptop I have, which somehow Microsoft, during that free Windows 10 promotation, managed to upgrade to Windows 10 by installing some third party progran too: and even the Microsoft technician took hours to get Windows 10 installed and working.

Then, when I put that flash drive into this HP EliteBook 8450p laptop, it didn't want to INSTALL; it wanted to BURN a DVD. I didn't know what to do so I let it BURN the DVD. Then I removed the flash drive and ejected the DVD.

When I put the DVD back in, as they usualy do, it started to run, without me doing anything, and installed what it said was SP 1 in less time that I had expected.

DVD's always seem to install faster than downloads.

That is why, for something like Office 2010, I always insist on buying the DVD version, because it always seems to install faster, without incident, than a download, and you can keep using it over and over.

I even liked it when Microsoft sold DVD's of Service Packs (like Office 2003 - Service Pack 3) for a nominal price. I'd buy one and keep it with the original program.

Regarding your suggestion, is this DVD (I labled it Windows 7 SP 1 64-bit), which was made from the flash drive, the equivlent of what you suggested I make from the stand alone download of SP 1, or would you advise me to make another one directly from the download. DVD's are cheap.

Also, what I noticed when I downloaded SP 1, is that it stopped at 99%, shortly thereafter a small rectangular window opened on the screen of that Toshiba Satelite I was using. It said "transferring to drive (? - the flash drive)" while a green bar went accross the little retangular window on the monitor screen.

Someone I was talking to in the electronic section of Walmart (The Walmart is in a college town where that guy might have been a knowledegable student) said that's how it works.

The "download" always goes into a "tempory folder" on the hard drive, and then is transferred (depending on the situation) to a flash drive, or if desired, a DVD.

He said that you don't see that screen for a small downlad because it goes so fast, but you do see it for something as large as Windows 7 SP 1.

Is that how it usually works? 

Alan 150

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Yes, that is correct (about the download going to a temporary folder).

If you used the 1.9 GB file I referenced this morning, then that is the right one to use for a DVD but you must use the Burn ISO option on your DVD burning program so it autoruns.

You can't just burn the file as a data DVD.

I'm like you...old school. 

I want CD and DVD installation programs.

Even with the new Microsoft Office programs, I pay extra for them to send me the DVD, and I print out the product key and tape it inside the DVD folder the DVD comes with.

That way my bases are covered.