Three Wise Men

Past few couple of days I had some problems with buying Windows 7 and getting it installed. Long story short: they sold me 32bit OEM Home Premium version and I wanted 64bit version. They refused to replace it since I already opened the package. Let’s not get into details that they shouldn’t even sell me the OEM version and that Microsoft won’t be too happy to hear about this but I had a problem and it needed fixing.

Microsoft support was VERY helpful and they told me that I can use my existing serial number to install 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium OEM, not the retail version, but OEM. Great! Unfortunately they told me to get the installation DVD somewhere else.

Read on if you want to know how I solved my problem …

While preparing my new workstation I stumbled upon a problem on how to boot VirtualBox machine from a USB fash drive. Pretty soon I discovered that VirtualBox has no support for booting from USB devices. Something with their BIOS not supporting it and that implementing this wouldn’t bring a lot to the whole package.

Read on if you want to know more.