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| 871699 | 2010-04-01 04:52:00 | Hi, I have an EEE with a stu##ed HDD. My question is if I put in a new HDD how do load windows back on? No optical drive of course and with no OS is there any USB support? Cant plug in a USB disk drive if no USB support on a fresh drive... If I could DL the recovery image I could put on HDD from another PC but not sure if that would work or where to get the image from... Any advise would be welcomed. |
dzina (6860) | ||
| 871700 | 2010-04-01 04:56:00 | Install windows no optical drives *DOS (preferably 7.10 for it's improved loading times, available online, or by request.. it was free when i got it) If you have not burned a copy of DOS 7.10 yet, do that first, you will need it before moving the hardware! Attach the drive to IDE 1, channel 2 and start up your computer. - format the drive to FAT32 (you can always switch it to ntfs later, with a prog such as partition magic) - shutdown the computer *With the DOS cd in the drive - switch the laptop drive to IDE 1 channel 1 for best chance of detection, DOS is not the smartest OS ever made - power up and install DOS 7.10 when prompted. IT is your choice to add or not add all the extras with DOS, these will not affect your installation either way! - Shutdown the computer and rearrange the laptop drive such that it is on IDE1, channel 2 again. So that you can boot into the OS (possibly XP) on your desktop. - Remove DOS 7.10 cd - replace with Windows XP cd after system has booted. - Copy I386 folder from WinXP cd onto the laptop harddrive *probably place this directly on the root of the drive to prevent confusion later. - find and download smartdrv.exe and copy it to the root directory as well (speeds up dos transfers) *IF you cannot find this file, it is also found on win98 boot disks Attach the drive to IDE 1, channel 2 and start up your computer. - format the drive to FAT32 (you can always switch it to ntfs later, with a prog such as partition magic) - shutdown the computer *With the DOS cd in the drive - switch the laptop drive to IDE 1 channel 1 for best chance of detection, DOS is not the smartest OS ever made - power up and install DOS 7.10 when prompted. IT is your choice to add or not add all the extras with DOS, these will not affect your installation either way! - Shutdown the computer and rearrange the laptop drive such that it is on IDE1, channel 2 again. So that you can boot into the OS (possibly XP) on your desktop. - Remove DOS 7.10 cd - replace with Windows XP cd after system has booted. - Copy I386 folder from WinXP cd onto the laptop harddrive *probably place this directly on the root of the drive to prevent confusion later. - find and download smartdrv.exe and copy it to the root directory as well (speeds up dos transfers) *IF you cannot find this file, it is also found on win98 boot disks This is supposed to work never tried it though |
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| 871701 | 2010-04-01 04:58:00 | Its a net book (Asus EEE) no ide channels, just the 1 sata connector for the HDD... | dzina (6860) | ||
| 871702 | 2010-04-02 02:51:00 | Google is your friend - allabouteeepc.com | kandjc (15143) | ||
| 871703 | 2010-04-02 08:25:00 | Correct me if i am wrong (which i may very well be) but if i have a brand new HDD there is no OS or DOS of any kind so therefore no USB support to allow a USB ROM drive or flash drive to be found or function?? The only thing i can think of is to install DOS on the disk while it is in another PC as a slave drive (dont know if that can be done or not etc)... The link above talks about loading a boot sector etc but if the USB needs to be mounted to load the boot sector its not going to work | dzina (6860) | ||
| 871704 | 2010-04-02 08:31:00 | If the BIOS supports USB and booting from a flash drive, then you can use it. All you have to do is format it on another PC, and copy / extract one of the files from a site like bootdisk.com | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 871705 | 2010-04-02 10:05:00 | Yeah the BIOS definitely supports booting from USB. You can either use a USB Optical drive, or a USB Thumbdrive for installation of either Linux or Windows. The question then becomes: Do you want to install Windows or Linux? Do you want to install from Optical drive, or from a USB Thumbdrive / HDD? |
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