Windows 7 on an Eee 900
We’ve all raved how Windows 7 is relatively lightweight; in fact we’ve seen loads of netbooks running it. However, those are Atom netbooks and this is the first time I’ve seen a first-generation netbook (Celeron 900 MHz), the ASUS Eee 900, run Windows 7:
Windows 7 installation instructions here.
January 19th, 2009 at 3:09 am
I want to take an Asus EEE PC 900A w/ a 4GB SSD & Linux O/S and swap out the 4GB SSD for a 64GB Runcore SSD and load Windows XP Pro on it. I want to load XP & other Windows applications from an external DVD drive, not a thumb drive.
Questions…
Can I plug in any old external USB DVD drive and have it recognized w/o the O/S installed? In other words, after I replace the SSD, the new SSD will be blank w/o the Linux or XP O/S. So, will the BIOS recognize the DVD drive? Do I need to configure the settings? And more importantly, is the BIOS the same for Linux as it is for Windows or do I need to install a new BIOS for the XP O/S?
Anyone? Please advise. Thanks.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:52 am
Yes I have an old usb cdrom drive and i used it to install XP on mine and it booted ok. You have to attach it and tell the BIOS to boot from it first. I just did the same and loaded Windows 7. It worked without a hitch.