Get a legal download of Win7 64bit

I'd forgotten the distributor but Digital River it was. The link worked awesome. Thanks Nibiru2012. And thanks all for the responses.
Cheers,
Chrome

Glad it worked for you!

This statement makes no sense whatsoever.

On a side note, MS's bandwidth always blows me away. The entire image(3GB's)was downloaded in about 15 minutes....insane.
Cheers,
Chrome

Agreed. I think coco could make good use of a spelling checker (or something!)

I agree with both Nibiru & davehc on that 100%!

Don't take short cuts and buy Win7 off ebay or street vendors, they may be cheap but can get your self double trouble.

You can buy copies of any Windows OS's on eBay, but you have to know what to look for. If they are too cheap, they usually are no good. I mean, a full version of Win 2K Pro still sells for $80 to $120. That's a 10 year old OS. But it's real. A full copy of XP Pro goes for $160 to $220. OEM is cheaper. When you're buying online from eBay, you use their email service to contact a seller and they get back with you, all messages are retained in eBay's system until you delete them. But I've bought plenty of software from eBay with no problem, except one. I was refunded my money over it. They have a strong counterfeit policy in place, should you buy a counterfeit item on eBay, you will be refunded every cent you paid. Now, with that policy in place, do you think they are going to harbor counterfeiters? They would be losing money out of their butts. You stand just as much of a chance buying from Amazon, New Egg, Tiger Direct, and any online retailer. You know as soon as you update, validate and activate if your version is real or not. If you don't validate, you can't get certain downloads, such as MSE or the Windows Live suite. And I've done enough installs to know what I'm talking about. If it's bad, it won't validate and activate, plain and simple.

Why didn't you say that in the first place?

I think you'll find that the VAST majority of users here have bona fide versions of Windows 7.

We do appreciate your concern though.

For any one who wants to by M$ software they should check for packageing, CD, manual and Product Key and COA lables. If any are missing it's a good chance that it's counterfeit and should not buy it.