Ended up extracting the files to a thumb drive. I set the boot option to the removable media, but it didn't start automatically. Good news with Win7 is you can start it from the windows environment which I did. Went through the entire install and then asked for key code. Typed it in and it said it wasn't valid for this version. I kinda caught out of the corner of my eye that it had an OEM code on the screen, which was not the code I had typed, so I retyped my key code and hit submit again and walla, I'm activated. Thanks for all the help. Now i'm trying to figure out why there's a wirless network with his name on it running from his house where he doesn't have internet? It's password protected and he doesn't know the password. Why does everything need to be so hard.