This tutorial will show you how to install Microsoft Windows 7 on the Asus Eee PC 900. Except for the last part (configuring boot devices), this tutorial works for every other netbook out there! Just follow the instructions to create your bootable Windows 7 USB thumbdrive, plug it into your netbook and start!
If the image doesn’t satisfy you, see this video proof:
(In this video, I am running Build 6956, although the startup animation is not the correct one. I guess that the graphics card is not good enough to display the 3D animation. This way of installing Windows 7 will work with any version of Windows 7)
What do I need?
- DVD or Image file of Windows 7/Windows Vista
- 4 GB USB thumbdrive (Usually NOT MORE THAN 4GB! Booting from USB flash devices is often not supported on devices bigger than 4GB, but with some newer netbook, it still works. Smaller USB sticks won’t work either since W7 won’t fit on them!)
- Computer with DVD drive or Image Mounting tool or Image Extracting tool
- Asus Eee PC (or any other netbook)
- Approx. 3h of time
Steps covered in this tutorial
- Create a bootable USB thumbdrive
- Copy Windows 7 to the thumbdrive
- Prepare the Eee PC to boot from USB
- Install Windows 7
- Install necessary drivers
- Try to get Aero running
How can I install Windows 7 on my netbook?
Create a bootable USB thumbdrive
First of all, if you haven’t got an external DVD drive, you will need a few tricks to install any Operating System on the Asus Eee PC since it has no CD drive.
But luckily the mainboard is quite cool and supports booting from USB devices, such as an USB thumbdrive. For Windows 7 Build 6956, you need at least 2.3 GB memory, so rather go for a 4 GB stick. Rumors that USB booting supports only 2 GB are not true!!
Plug the USB thumbdrive into another computer and download the following tool package:
Download USB_PREP8, PeToUSB, Bootsect.exe
Extract all the files inside and navigate to the usb_prep8 folder. Inside, double-click the executable batch file called usb_prep8.cmd. You will see a screen like this:
Press any key to contine, after a few seconds it will show you this window:
Make sure the options “Enable Disk Format”, “Quick Format” and “Enable LBA (FAT16X)” are checked and the correct USB drive is selected in the dropdown list above. This formatting process will erase all data on your USB thumbdrive! Save all files you need before formatting it! Then click start, click OK and click YES in the window asking you whether you really want to erase all files. After a few seconds, the stick should be formatted. Now close the PeToUSB window and the remaining console window.
The thumbdrive is formatted in a way that supports booting now, but the boot record is still not correct. In order to fix that, you have to use the other tool you extracted, called bootsect.
Press Start, Run and enter “cmd” (without the quotation marks), then press enter.
In the console window showing up, navigate to the path you extracted the bootsect folder to. You can use the “cd” command (change directory) and enter the name of the next folder afterwards (e.g. “cd Desktop”) to access the folder, or enter “cd ..” to move one folder back. If you enter only the first part of the folder name, e.g. “des” and then press TAB, it will auto-complete it to “Desktop”. This way you have to navigate into the bootsect folder.
Inside, enter “BootSect.exe /nt60 I:” and press enter to prepare the boot sector. Replace “I:” with the drive letter of your USB thumbdrive! The option “/nt60″ prepares the thumbdrive for use with Windows Vista and Windows 7, if you want to install XP choose “/nt52″.
After pressing enter you should see something like this:
Target volumes will be updated with BOOTMGR compatible bootcode.
I: (\\?\Volume{789ae78e-c3da-11dd-b1a9-000e2e405744})
Successfully updated FAT filesystem bootcode.
Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes.
Now your thumbdrive is ready to be used as boot drive!
Put Windows 7 on your bootable thumbdrive
Now you have to move all the files required for installation to the USB thumbdrive you prepared. Now you have 3 choices:
- Windows 7 is on a DVD:
Just put the DVD into your DVD drive, open the Windows Explorer, rightclick the drive and select “Explore”. Now use CTRL + A to mark all files on the DVD, press CTRL + C to copy them, go to your thumbdrive and press CTRL + V to paste them. It will take a few minutes to copy all the stuff. - Windows 7 is an image file (*.iso, *.mdf, …)
You can mount the image using a tool such as Daemon Tools to create a virtual DVD drive which tells Windows that the Windows 7 DVD is inserted although it isn’t
When the image is mounted, you can follow the instructions of 1. - Windows 7 is an image file and I don’t want to mount it:
You can use any of the various extracting tools like WinRAR or MagicISO to extract the image file just like a normal ZIP or RAR archive and copy all the files to the thumbdrive. If you chose MagicISO, rightclick in one of the file explorers shown on the top and select “Extract”.
Whatever you do, just make sure that ALL the files from the DVD/Image are on the thumbdrive afterwards!
Prepare the Asus Eee PC to boot from USB devices
Now plug in the prepared USB thumbdrive into your Asus’ USB port. Start the laptop and enter the BIOS setup by pressing F2 immediately after the grey Asus Eee PC screen showed up. Use the arrow keys to navigate to the Boot tab.
Now select “Boot Device Priority” and press enter. Make sure the first boot device is “Removable Dev.”! After that, press escape to go back, navigate to the “Exit” tab and choose “Save changes and Exit”. After saving the BIOS settings, the grey screen will show up again. Now press Escape, it will bring you to a screen where you can select the boot device:
Select “USB” and press enter. You will have a black screen for about 5 seconds, then Windows 7 setup will load!
Follow the steps of the installation until it is done! There shouldn’t be any issus, but if there are, please feel free to comment! After the installation, which will take around 2 hours I guess, the Eee PC with Windows 7 is almost ready for use!
Installing necessary drivers
Surprisingly, Windows 7 already includes WLAN and Audio drivers, so you can surf the internet and play music right from the beginning on.
Video drivers are not supplied. Without them, Windows 7 can only display a resolution of 800×600 and can’t use any of the special stuff, so you should get them. Sadly, Intel doesn’t supply and for Windows 7 yet, and the normal Asus Driver disk doesn’t even contain some for Windows Vista. You can download the latest Intel GMA 915 drivers here: Intel Download Center.
You have to run them in Compability Mode for Windows Vista in order for them to work! Rightclick the executable, select “Properties”, “Compability” and tick “Run this program in compability for: Windows Vista”. Then the installation should work.
You can do the same trick with all other driver supplied by Asus, but acutally you don’t need to do it. I just kept the drivers Windows 7 installed for me.
Aero on the Asus Eee PC
Even with the new Intel Graphics Drivers, Aero isn’t running! I didn’t find a way to get it started yet, even all the registry hacks suggested didn’t help. Either they work for Vista only and not for Windows 7, or the GMA 915 is too worse even to try it out. If you find a way for it to work, please tell me!!
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December 19th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
You had to install it on the second SSD right? I have 7 too but couldn’t install it on the 4GB SSD.
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December 19th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
@Eickhel:
yeah, the first ssd with 4GB hasnt got enough memory. Windows 7 needs at least 9GB free, and this is barely enough if you want to install some applications
December 20th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
if it has to be installed on the second ssd, does the slow ssd cause windows 7 to lag, if i’m not mistaken people have tried to install xp on the second ssd n they have problem with the low speed of the second ssd
December 20th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
i never recognised that, i got all my stuff on the second ssd and it loads as fast as from the first one.
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December 27th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Nice tip and very good explanation about installing Windows 7 on netbooks /mini laptops. It is cool that this windows can be installed and configured using USB. I am going to try it on my ASUS EEE Laptop asap.
Thanks !!!
Wish you and yours, very happy, prosperous, healthy, peaceful new year !!!
Phoenix2life
December 28th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
Whats the batter life like with it installed?
December 28th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
its awesome!
January 1st, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Thanks for the instructions. I just tried the procedure with the Windows 7 beta 1 (build 7000) and it didn’t work. Right before the setup was done there was an error saying something like “Windows could not be configured to run on this hardware”. But I just stripped the beta 1 with vlite to make in run on my eee900 (using acronis and sysprep
).
January 1st, 2009 at 9:28 pm
i downloaded build 7000 already and gonna try it tomorrow, so wait for more news
vlite is also working with win7? didnt know that, perhaps that helps.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:55 am
Is there a way to do this using a USB Hard drive instead of a flash drive to install from? PeToUSB won’t let me choose the drive.
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:02 am
i’m not sure but this may work:
1. copy all the files inside the disk image to your USB HDD
2. use something like the Windows XP Setup Boot Disks to create a bootable floppy disk (if your comp is not the eee pc and has got a floppy drive), download:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994/en-us
3. boot from floppy and choose the hdd as isntall path.
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 am
but usually i would say: no.
the hdd hasnt got the right boot sector configuration (the PeToUSB tool writes the correct ones on your thumbdrive) so that when booting from it the bios cant find the right place to start.
perhaps there’s a way to change the boot sectors of an external hdd, not sure about that, but google is your friend
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:48 pm
You can remove components with vlite but hotfix integration and the unattended part will mess up the setup. For Windows 7 you’ll have to work on “Windows 7 Ultimate”. Trying another edition will mess the setup as well.
I created a new ISO which is just 1GB. I’m installing it on a VM just to make sure it will fit on the 4GB SSD. During the HDD setup it said that it needs at least a 1.855GB partition for installation. Let’s see how much space it’s really gonna take
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 pm
@Hunter
I got problems with the PeToUSB tool and a 8GB SanDisk stick. Fortunately I had a 4GB Intenso USB Stick laying around. So you just might try another one
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:56 pm
@Basti756:
I think what he wants is to fit Windows 7 on the internal 4GB SSD of his Eee PC so that the other, 8 or 16GB SSD is free for all the other data.
And 8GB sticks cause problems, I read somewhere that booting from USB flash memory supports only up to 2GB so I was surprised that my 4GB stick worked.
—
I’m currently installing the Beta 1 (Build 7000), it’s at “Completing installation…” so give me 30 more minutes
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
My (VMware) installation just finished. It took 3.8GB
. I’ll give it a try on my eee now
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:36 pm
ok, it’s installed now, last steps!
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Did you experience the error I mentioned in my first post?
January 2nd, 2009 at 4:46 pm
hi Basti,
was the 3.8 gb with page file turned on or off?
post back if it installs ok on the eee as i am interested in trying the same?
are you able to post a how to on the components you removed to get the iso under 1gb.
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:59 pm
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January 2nd, 2009 at 6:03 pm
@Basti756:
No, i didn’t experience that error. I did the installation exactly the same way as I did the previous one, and it worked fine. See this post:
http://www.multimolti.com/blog/2009/01/02/windows-7-beta-1-build-7000-on-eee-pc-900/
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:08 pm
3.8GB was with turned on page file and turned on system restore. But the ISO is 1.2GB not 1GB – sorry for the wrong posting. I tried that in a virtual machine to make sure it will fit on the eee. Now I can tell that it does. Unfortunately it needs 4.9GB when installed so you have to use the bigger SSD. Maybe I can strip it down a little more to make it fit. I’ll upload the config file for vlite so you can use it.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
@Basti756:
Decreased the Recycle Bin size already? Set it to 4% or something, disable hybernating, this should give you quite a lot of memory.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:37 pm
Here’s the config file for vlite:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jojekd2ynoz
I left the german language because I need the german keyboard layout. You may remove that too
I’d suggest to continue this topic at the URL the admin posted above…
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:55 pm
I set the recycle bin size to 200MB for both SSD’s now. And voilá – used space on system disk is about 3.6GB. I’m going to put the userprofile to the other disk as well as the temp directory. Then I should end up with a working installation on the 4GB SSD.
Does your wifi really work? I can see my home network but I’m not able to connect (WPA-PS encrypted)…
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:59 pm
My Wireless LAN is working perfectly. While information, it asked me if I wanted to connect to a Wireless Network, I selected my WLAN here at home, entered password and it even started downloading updates during the installation
Can’t complain…
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Then I should check my vlite configuration again. Maybe I removed an essential component
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Please move to the other post now, it always takes so long to refresh this one
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:30 pm
thanks basti, much appreciated, will try this out over the weekend
January 6th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Hello there,
installtion ok on my eeepc 1000h…unfortunately either LAN card or WLAN card were not detected. Vista drivers did not work. Without network connection netbook is unusable:-(
don’t know how to go on…
January 6th, 2009 at 11:43 am
@bagoo:
Thanks for your feedback, it’s good to know that the LAN and WLAN drivers for the 1000H are not included in Windows 7. For my Eee PC 900, everything is included and works fine, but this may help you:
Since Vista drivers are not workign, try the XP ones. Probably an Asus Driver CD was shipped with your Netbook, get these drivers on your Eee PC (USB thumbdrive) and try to run them in Compability Mode (rightclick the driver file, choose properties, go to compability tab) for Windows XP SP2. This worked for me with an earlier build of Windows 7.
If it still doesn’t work with that, come back and we will try another way!
January 6th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
can i boot from an external harddrive insted of a usb thumbstick?
January 6th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Another guy tried it already and didn’t have success. You can try it, but the PeToUSB tool won’t accept to rewrite the boot sector of an HDD, perhaps you can find a tool in the Internet that does that.
Please tell me if it works!
January 6th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
does it matter if the external harddrive i use is NTFS instead of fat?
January 6th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Not sure, but for the USB thumbdrive, it has to be FAT16. I found this website that says it IS possible to boot from your external HDD:
http://www.infopackets.com/news/software/windows_tips/2006/20060217_use_external_hard_drive_to_boot_windows_incase_c_drive_crashes.htm
Search google for “bootable external hdd”, it will bring you lots of results.
January 8th, 2009 at 12:30 am
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January 8th, 2009 at 3:09 am
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January 9th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
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January 9th, 2009 at 1:59 pm
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January 9th, 2009 at 10:47 pm
where can download windows 7?
January 9th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
@robert:
There is a link to a torrent file for build 6956, but it is outdated. This torrent file is for the new version, build 7000 or the official beta, and it should be legal to download it as torrent since it has been released anyway….
http://www.multimolti.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/microsoftwindows7build7000.rar
January 9th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
@robert:
Now I found the official download website, but it will be quite slow because thousands of people want to download it at the same time
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/windows/windows-7/beta-download.aspx
January 10th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
I´m trying to use this method on my eee box, and everything is ok untill the part where i´m supposed to hit esc during the loading “scene” with the eee logo in the background to chose boot device.
When i hit esc it just jumps right into loaading win xp?
What shall i do?
January 10th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
THIS SAVED ME. thank you so much this is the most legit thing i have came acros. for an psp users that do not have a flsh drive i used the mem stick with my psp. this might help
January 10th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Now i got it to boot from USB but when it does i get this message: “NTLDR missing, press any key to restart”
January 10th, 2009 at 11:43 pm
@Palle:
Are you sure you did all the boot sector stuff correctly? This means the BIOS can’t find a boot record, so please check it.
More help: http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000465.htm
1. Computer is booting from a non-bootable source.
2. Computer hard disk drive is not properly setup in BIOS.
3. Corrupt NTLDR and/or NTDETECT.COM file.
4. Misconfiguration with the boot.ini file.
5. Attempting to upgrade from a Windows 95, 98, or ME computer that is using FAT32.
6. New hard disk drive being added.
7. Corrupt boot sector / master boot record.
8. Seriously corrupted version of Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
9. Loose or Faulty IDE/EIDE hard disk drive cable.
January 11th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Sorry guys, my bad.
Weeee
English isn´t my first language so i missed a part in the instruction. I´m now installing Win 7 on my eee box
Sorry for taking up your time with my problems.
The guide is superb, thanks!
January 11th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Has anyone tried this on the Eee PC 701? I’ve tried installing multiple times, but I kept getting the following error:
Windows could not be configured to run on this computer’s hardware.
Did I remove something I shouldn’t have with vLite?
January 11th, 2009 at 10:22 am
@Hunter:
I never tried it on an Eee PC 701 since I only got the 900. But it is also working on my (very old) AMD Athlon computer where the hardware is recognized, so I think it should work with the newer Eee PC hardware. What exactly did you remove with vLite?
January 11th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
A couple of notes:
1.) You are going to need a minimum of a 16 Gb SSD to do the install, 32Gb replacement SSDs for a eee 900A are available online for ca. U.S. $79, can’t afford not to buy one/upgrade if you’re into eee hacking…
2.) My installation was on a 32Gb SSD that was running dual boot XP Home and Ubuntu 8.04 on 16 Gb partitions.
3.) If you are installing on a eee that has XP Home installed, you need not go through the rigamarole above, just get the Windows version of the Unetbootin utility and blow the Windows 7 ISO image onto a 4Gb USB drive or USB SD card reader. You can start the setup.exe program on the ISO image on the drive.
4.) Be aware that if you have a dual boot XP Home/any Linux flavor system, the Windows 7 install will whack the GRUB boot loader and you will need to reinstall it. HowTo for that found here: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/reinstall-ubuntu-grub-bootloader-after-windows-wipes-it-out/
Just did the install yesterday, everything pretty much works in Windows 7, but it behaves a bit bizarrely, seems like most Windows 7 functions/utilities run quite snappily, but non-Windows software like Firefox or Open Office intermittently slow down tremendously.
January 11th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
@jackthehack:
Thanks for your feedback!
1. Please use the Shrink Windows 7 Tutorial to make your Windows 7 smaller, so it will even fit to your 4GB SSD:
http://www.multimolti.com/blog/2009/01/09/shrink-windows-7-to-fit-on-asus-eee-pc-4gb-sdd/
2. See 1.
3. No you can’t, i tried that, you can mount the ISO at XP and start the installation, but as soon as it finished copying the files, it will restart, extract them and afterwards, when it tries to find drivers, have an error saying that the disc was not found. Thus it’s not working as easy as this.
4. That’s true, but the link you provided fixes it.
For me, the 3rd party applications run fine, I use Google Chrome and it is working perfectly. Firefox also works good, but not as fast as Chrome.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
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January 13th, 2009 at 8:17 am
heya
thanks for the great tutorial! windows 7 is working well, even the video drivers worked right out of the box. all the transparency & blur effects are working too.
I can’t seem to get headphones working for some reason, and the hardware keys no longer work. i’m wondering if i reinstall the asus proprietary software if that will fix the issues? has anyone found a better way?
-ness
January 13th, 2009 at 11:11 am
@ness:
The hardware keys aren’t working for some reason. Even when you install the Asus ACPI on it, still nothing happens, and you get an error “sound driver service not running” on startup. Seems that these ACPI drivers are just not working with Windows 7.
What do you mean with transparency & blur effects? The Aero desktop theme? If that’s working, please tell me which Eee PC you’ve got, cause it’s not running on my Eee 900.
January 13th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
I keep getting a error when formatting with the PeToUSB program. Just says an error occurred.
:/
(using a 8GB stick)
January 13th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
@Manic Nimrod:
8GB USB sticks often cause errors, I think they don’t support booting from (at least I read that somewhere). But it is possible to use external HDDs, and they’re a lot bigger, so I think it should be possible.
Try a smaller one (4GB) and tell me whether it helps!
January 13th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Thanks for the reply. I gave up after a few tries.
I’ve now got it running..It runs really well.
Thanks so much. For the guide and the Intel Driver link.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
4Gb USB stick is not recognized in PeToUSB. I’m using Windows 7 beta.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
Oh, that’s weird. My 4GB stick is working fine. Try using PeToUSB from a Windows XP computer, I never tried doing the whole stuff on a Win7 machine…
January 16th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
Great walkthrough! I’ve got it up and running, and it screams. Thanks for your effort and work.
January 18th, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Anyone had hal.dll error?
very common during installing XP from USB flash drive
not tried W7 yet … just asking!
January 18th, 2009 at 9:08 pm
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.
January 20th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
@c1asia
The Eee PC 900 has a 4GB SSD and a 12GB or 16GB SSD. The 4GB SSD is soldered to the motherboard and cannot be removed. The larger SSD can be removed for faster, larger capacity SSD drives since it is mini PCIe.
The Eee PC 900 will recognize a USB DVD drive. I used one for my installation, and both drives had all partitions deleted (No boot sector, MBR, etc.)
The BIOS is the same regardless of the OS. With the EeePC900, you will need to make some changes in the BIOS. You will need to change the boot priority to boot from the USB DVD drive. If it is plugged in then it should show up as an option to select, otherwise use the Removeable Device. You will also need to change the OS Installation from “Finished” to “Start”. From then on just follow Basti’s walkthrough!
January 20th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
I got headphones working, just reinstalled the ASUS audio driver that came preloaded on my eee. I might have had to run it in compatibility mode, i dont remember.
yes aero is working for me and i haven’t installed any video drivers yet. im running on an asus eee pc 900ha, 160gb hd, 2 gb ram. theres a major problem with putting the computer to sleep or letting the display turn of, etc. when i wake the computer up it freezes or is unworkably glitchy every time. im hoping that installing the intel video drivers will fix that.
waiting on a broadcom card from hong kong so i can use wifi on my mac os x partition, then i’ll use that as my main os. windows 7 is cool but way too buggy for me to use on a daily basis.
-ness
January 21st, 2009 at 7:50 am
I am trying to put W7 over Ubuntu on my eee pc 1000 ssd and am having troubles. I get to the part where W7 starts the install and then get a message saying that the hard drive is not formatted in a way that W7 recognizes. I can’t figure out how to wipe the ssd clean and reformat the system drive to ntfs. I was able to format the 30gb ssd to ntfs, but W7 will not allow me to install on that partition for some reason, saying it cannot create a partition.
Anyone have any ideas?
January 21st, 2009 at 9:35 am
OK, so I figured it out. While in Ubuntu, you need to go to cfdisk and change the primary drive (for me it was sda, 8GB) type to NTFS (code 07) so the W7 install program will see the drive. Once you make that change you shut down the computer and boot from the thumb drive as described above and the install works.
Man, that was a PITA to figure out.
January 21st, 2009 at 11:14 pm
thanks alot i finaly figuered it out after this guide have been trying a long time:P
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:10 am
i’m at my wits end… my windows 7 installation is now beyond glitchy, i don’t know what i did.
i’ve been trying to install the intel video drivers mentioned in the tutorial but i can’t even right click the file to put run it in compatibility mode without getting the fruit-loop of death. i am forced to hard reset every time, same results in safe mode.
also having problems opening my c: drive. double clicking the icon does nothing but set the green progress bar running which takes about 2 minutes to reach 100% but doesn’t let me get into the c: directory.
putting my comp to sleep or shutting the lid gives me major problems and forces me to restart every time.
anyone having similar problems?
-ness
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:16 am
My install works perfectly, ness. I had to turn on the camera in the BIOS and had to reinstall the network driver. Other than that all is well. Sorry to hear you are having such a hard time. Why not just do a clean install or try to repair it with the install thumbdrive?
January 24th, 2009 at 1:24 am
Just attempted this on my Eee 1000H (160Gb HDD), unfortunately I don’t have a 4Gb stick so at first I tried using a 4Gb partition on my external HDD, PeToUSB doesn’t recognise it. Then tried it using a 8Gb stick, PeToUSB still didn’t recognise it. So then I partitioned my 8Gb into two 4Gb partitions, PeToUSB could see it but when running its process it’d always come up with an error message. So I was resorted to using vLite (making sure to steer clear of the Integration and Unattened sections)and putting the files on my 2Gb stick. Now I can boot into the Windows installation and it’ll start to install itself, then it’ll do a restart but before it goes back to installing I have to change the boot sequence back to have HDD first otherwise the installation process just starts from the beginning. Anyway, once I’ve come back into the installation it’ll sit there for a bit supposedly doing the final ‘Completing installation’ part when a box appears saying something along the lines of that it can’t configure for the hardware. And basically I’m a bit stumped on this now. Have had to go back to Ubuntu, but would like to get Windows 7 at some point.
January 25th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@ness:
This is weird. Which netbook do you have? When it’s the Eee PC 700, perhaps the 600MHz Celeron is REALLY to slow for W7.
I’ve also got the thing with the C:\ drive, when I double-click it, nothing happens for a while, but after 10 sec or so I can see the contents… but sometimes everything stays blank. In addition, my W7 can only recognize the 16GB SSD, it shows only 1 partition. When booting XP (installed on the 4GB SSD), I can see and access both partitions.
@stereodata:
Apparently, nobody had this error. I didn’t have it as well when installing XP from the thumbdrive, so perhaps the Eee PC is immune against it
@Apocrypha:
PeToUSB doesn’t work with HDDs, but perhaps you can find another tool somewhere in the internet. And USB sticks bigger than 4GB can’t be bootable because the BIOS won’t recognize them or something, so PeToUSB won’t let you try to make them bootable.
January 26th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Aero Glass will not work on Intel GMA900 because it is to slow. You’ll need GMA945 at a minimum. The Samsung netbook NC10 is using this graphic chipset and Aero glass is running fine there.
Cheers!
Daniel
January 26th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
Thanks for letting me know.
January 28th, 2009 at 9:30 pm
When i load up skype on W7 and try video chat, my computer freezes. Has anyone come across this? plus, i have no control over my wirless card, its always on. “Fn + F2″ does not work. What should i do?
January 28th, 2009 at 9:46 pm
@Lennart:
I have the 900HA (1.6 ghz, 2 gb ram, 160 gb hd). My hd came with two partitions out of the box, for some reason, both 80gb. I installed mac os x 10.5.4 with iDeneb on one partition and reinstalled over XP with windows 7 on the other. I’m debating whether to try to fix 7 or just install XP again. What do you think?
January 28th, 2009 at 11:15 pm
@ness:
I would do a clean formatting of your HD, perhaps W7 has problems with the Mac partition.
Is W7 running so good that you would use it every day? On mine, it’s nice to show around, but for usage I still got the good old XP.
January 28th, 2009 at 11:17 pm
@Jason:
Have a look at my other Windows 7 Beta 1 post please:
http://www.multimolti.com/blog/2009/01/02/windows-7-beta-1-build-7000-on-eee-pc-900/
Videos on W7 with the Eee PC seems to be a general problem. HD Video playback makes the computer freeze, the WinSAT tool freezes at “Media Foundation Playback Assessment v1.0.0.0″ which also sounds like video, and now you tell me that even the Skype video chat lets it crash. Perhaps the Intel GMA drivers are somehow faulty.
To get access to your WLAN card, install the Asus ACPI tools (should be on your driver CD) in compability mode for Windows XP. Worked for me.
January 29th, 2009 at 12:18 am
Cool, Thanks Lennart, your awesome!
January 30th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
hi download windows 7 build 7000.0.081212 from this server.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso
but i have a problem. when i start to install it runs OK (copying new file) but in the second thing (expanding file) a message appear and say something missing.
January 30th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
I had the same problem, re-do the whole thing. Something went wrong when you copied the files to your USB stick, so please do everything again, that worked for me.
January 31st, 2009 at 5:05 am
I have an 18GB SD card and an ASUS Eee PC 1000 when I download the PetoUSB application above but am getting a “No USB Disk FOund” message all the time. Any help will be most welcomed.
F.
February 1st, 2009 at 12:46 am
hello guys.and dear Admin: i have a problim.
i did every things as you gave about Instruction to make a bootable usb every thing finished restarted and also mark in BIOS setup boot from usb devis and click f10 for save. when restarted my pc it gave this mssg (BooTMGR is missing) i do not know what shad i do? and two tree time i tried but it was the same mssg. and i have 4GB SanDisk usb and i have a question from you can i instal any version of windows xp or just windows 7 ok thank you.
February 1st, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I’m not sure whether PeToUSB works with SD cards. Try not to put the SD card in your internal card reader but in an external one and connect it via USB, perhaps this works.
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Hi, could I get a little more detailed info how to do this after downloading USB_PREP8? I’m not familiar, not seeing how to extract files, and navigate to folder.
“Extract all the files inside and navigate to the usb_prep8 folder. Inside, double-click the executable batch file called usb_prep8.cmd. You will see a screen like this:”
Am doing it with xp and 4gb flash drive……..Regards, TIA
February 2nd, 2009 at 11:46 pm
The archive is an RAR archive. In order to extract it, please download WinRAR. Then go to the folder where you extracted the files to and open the file “usb_prep8.cmd”
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:13 am
Thankyou, I downloaded WinRAR and now see how to navigate to and open “usb_prep8.cmd”. When I do this and press any key I get these options in same screen, text below. Is there a particular option I want? I don’t get the ‘Pe ToUSB’ window after pressing any key. Sorry, newbie here
Prepares Windows XP LocalSource for Copy to USB-Drive:
0) Change Type of USB-Drive, currently [USB-stick]
1) Change XP Setup Source Path, currently []
2) Change Virtual TempDrive, currently [T:]
3) Change Target USB-Drive Letter, currently []
4) Make New Tempimage with XP LocalSource and Copy to USB-Drive
5) Use Existing Tempimage with XP LocalSource and Copy to USB-Drive
F) Change Log File – Simple OR Extended, currently [Simple]
Q) Quit
Enter your choice:
February 3rd, 2009 at 6:43 am
Moved the SD into an USB drive and still won’t work (Error 11).
February 3rd, 2009 at 5:40 pm
@Fernando:
Then it doesn’t seem to work with a SD card. Try it with a normal USB thumb drive.
@Mike:
That’s too far already. After you open the CMD file, you should see a window as in the screenshot in the tutorial:
http://www.multimolti.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/asus_win7_04.jpg
Do all the stuff in THIS window, when finished, close it AND close the console window (the one with black background and white text) that says the stuff you posted above.
Continue with the tutorial afterwards. I hope this will help you
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:03 pm
hamoz3 Says:
January 30th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
hi download windows 7 build 7000.0.081212 from this server.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/3/3/633118BD-6C3D-45A4-B985-F0FDFFE1B021/EN/7000.0.081212-1400_client_en-us_Ultimate-GB1CULFRE_EN_DVD.iso
but i have a problem. when i start to install it runs OK (copying new file) but in the second thing (expanding file) a message appear and say something missing.
VA:F [1.0.7_345]
i try from USB flash and from the dvd and syill the same error.
February 3rd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
i try the USB flash and the dvd and still have the same error.
February 4th, 2009 at 1:49 am
Yes Lennart, this helped very much, and done.
Now I am navigating to the ‘bootsect’ folder in command line. I see how to add and display the folders path with ‘cd’
After I put the command ‘cd win’, it says NO PATH? What do I need to do?
@Mike:
That’s too far already. After you open the CMD file, you should see a window as in the screenshot in the tutorial:
http://www.multimolti.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/asus_win7_04.jpg
Do all the stuff in THIS window, when finished, close it AND close the console window (the one with black background and white text) that says the stuff you posted above.
Continue with the tutorial afterwards. I hope this will help you
February 7th, 2009 at 11:28 am
@Mike:\Desktop\bootsect\” and then execute “bootsect” there.
VN:F [1.0.7_345]
please wait...
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This “cd win” is a path on my computer, you will have to change it so that it fits for your computer. Where did you extract the bootsect folder to? Navigate to this path. If you put it on the desktop, you will have to navigate to “C:\Documents and Settings\
February 7th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
really enjoyed the process and made up a thumbdrive from a windows beta I installed the first week of release – following your instructions – I am on a eeepc 700 and it wants to install but says i need to be running a windows ver on it – it is on linux – do I have to go get xp and install then try it, or is there a sneaky way – or don’t bother it will never run even if you get to the next step -
February 7th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
@Seano:
All the steps above can be done on any (!!) computer, so rather prepare your USB stick on your desktop PC. Probably it will be faster and of course easier, I assume you’ve got a computer running Windows XP somewhere in your house.
February 8th, 2009 at 8:35 am
thks for the reply – I might have confused the question
I did everything as instructed on my desktop which runs xp
my eeepc runs on linux
I booted etc and It starts to intall 7 but then it says that windows 7 will only install on to a running version of Windows – I figure you can only install 7 if you have windows already. As the eeepc is running linux it will not instal.
So what i was saying do I temperorly have to get xp on the eeepc then upgrade to 7 or has someone gone from Linux to 7 or is there a cheat
February 8th, 2009 at 11:22 am
Oh, I didn’t know this. Since my Eee PC had XP already when I installed Windows 7, I never saw a message like this, but I can’t imagine that Windows 7 forces users to install another version of Windows before. What would companies (like Acer) do when they want to sell laptops with W7? Install XP first just to delete it again and install W7 afterwards?
Where did you get your W7 version from?
February 8th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Many Thanks for the tutorial, and special answers. Windows Ultimate 7 running now. I believe the neccessary graphics driver, and wired ethernet was downloaded with updates. No particular difficulties after install.
The O/S seems to run fine on the eee pc 900 16gb. No real complaints. I think the shutdown takes around a minute and a half or a little more. Bootup time is reasonable. Wireless performance seems very good.
Need to spend more time running it to learn and make small changes and settings.
Is there a good forum for others using W7 on this netbook to recommend? Thanks Again!
@Mike:
This “cd win” is a path on my computer, you will have to change it so that it fits for your computer. Where did you extract the bootsect folder to? Navigate to this path. If you put it on the desktop, you will have to navigate to “C:\Documents and Settings\\Desktop\bootsect\” and then execute “bootsect” there.
February 8th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Thanks for your feedback!
I haven’t joined any forum for Windows 7 on the Eee PC, but I think most Eee PC forums or netbook forums will have a W7 section soon.
February 10th, 2009 at 11:41 am
I got the download from Microsoft – It makes sense – MS are giving the Beta to windows users only. Thanks for the answers I did use your tutorial to load up xp but my disc has a problem where it stops copying and ends the full copy.
I have friends from overseas and they have just bought a new eeepc and am going to use your method to copy the disc they got and see how that works
many thanks
February 15th, 2009 at 6:03 pm
Thanks for the guide on installing Windows 7 on an Asus PC EEE 900.
I previously installed Ubuntu EEE and had lots of issues getting it to work properly. I followed your steps and Windows 7 works like a dream for me.
I noticed a few things though that I did differently and the install still worked.
1. I first tried to use USB_PREP8 and PeToUSB on a SanDisk Cruzer 8Gb USB memory and got an error message.
2. I instead just used the regular Format option in Windows Vista with FAT32, and then ran bootsect.exe with the /nt60 option as your instructions.
3. I copied all the files from the Windows 7 iso file, installed it on my Asus netbook without any problems, usb started up just fine too.
4. Once everything was done I installed the recommended updates from Windows Update, which included new Intel GM915/910 drivers. All seems to work just fine for me now.
Thanks for an awesome guide!
February 15th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
@Eddy:
1. I think booting from USB devices bigger than 4GB isn’t working, that’s why PeToUSB rejected your 8GB stick.
4. Thanks for the tip, so we don’t have to install it manually any more. Can you get Aero running?
February 20th, 2009 at 8:05 am
I have got to the website named: http://www.batterygoshop.co.uk/asus/w1-battery.htm asus w1 battery ,It’s very cool.
February 20th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Hi im having problems formathing my 8GB f;ash drive whit this tool it shows always an error when i tri to format it any idea ??
February 24th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
@Thorg:
USB flash devices bigger than 8GB can’t be made bootable. Use a smaller one, maximum 4GB.
February 26th, 2009 at 11:25 am
@Lennart
USB flash devices bigger than 8GB can’t be made bootable. Use a smaller one, maximum 4GB.
You sir are mistaken. I have installed both ubuntu9.04 alpha 3 and Windows 7 build 7025 on my EEEpc 900ha. I used unetboot under wine on ubuntu 7.10 (Was the only *nix I had on disk) and installed from a 16gb flashdrive I got from ebay.
I also went and tried to use my imation 16gb drive to test, It would seem that any drive can be made to work.
February 26th, 2009 at 3:11 pm
@TehMwak:
Yes, you are right, I didn’t mean in generally, but the software “PeToUSB” used to make USB devices bootable doesn’t support more than 4GB. If you use another tool or anything for Linux/Mac, it should be working with bigger ones.
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
My ethernet(RJ45) and the Wireless ethernet does not work on my Asus EEE Pc900 With Windows 7 on it. Drivers for VGA Card did work but nothing else.
Can someone link tha drivers Please!?!
March 2nd, 2009 at 5:43 pm
@Olsson:
Which drivers did you try? Take the one from the CD Asus shipped with your Eee PC and install them in compatibility mode for Windows XP.
March 2nd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
The problem where that i have the “Linux” from the beginning.
Does that CD work?
March 2nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
I also bought the Linux version, but they included 2 CDs with my Eee PC: one with a Linux system recovery and the other one with drivers for Windows XP.
March 4th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
Hi all !
I’ve tried the steps yesterday in a french eee pc 900s and on the end of the W7 instalation, I got this message:
– WINDOWS SETUP COULD NOT CONFIGURE WINDOWS TO RUN ON THIS COMPUTER’S HARDWARE
Anyone knows what might be going on ?
Is it a case to give up ?
I got w7 from the torrent posted on the blog.
Looking foward to hearing your commets on this.
cheers
Bruno
March 4th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
@Bruno:
sorry, i’ve never had that problem before. maybe all these forum topics may help you:
http://www.google.de/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=WINDOWS+SETUP+COULD+NOT+CONFIGURE+WINDOWS+TO+RUN+ON+THIS+COMPUTER%E2%80%99S+HARDWARE&btnG=Google+Search
March 19th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
HI NICE WORK OF GETING WINDOW 7 TO WORK ON A NETBOOK BUT MICROSOFT SHOULD REALY MAKE A O.S JUST FOR AN NETBOOK
March 19th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
@michael:
I don’t think so. Creating a new OS for just one type of computer isn’t very good, consider all the compability problems that may occur with existing software and drivers.
In my opinion they should rather scale down Window’s hunger for bigger hardware. Vista needs so much computing power for doing nothing that could be used in programs or games. Windows 7 is better, but still quite power-consuming.
May 5th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
This worked for me fine with the new RC1 (build 7100). I’m using a 16GB usb thumb drive, and it booted with no issues.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:23 am
16GB thumb drive? are you serious? that’s good news, I thought it would only work with up to 4GB!
May 8th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I did a very terrible thing…
I installed Alchol 52% (a program like Deamon tools that makes virtual drives)
and then i mounted the windows 7 RC1 imagefile (from microsofts website) and tried to install..
But it ofcourse couldnt find the drive when rebooting..
Now it can’t even boot in windows xp or windows 7 even though i tried to install windows 7 on my hardiskpart 2?
im using the Asus 1002 HA and all my schoolwork is on my computer..
im a big fool
i didnt even back-up..
“Chose an operating system to start:
Earlier Version of Windows (starts windows xp and i can hear logon sound but the screen is black)
or
Windows Setup (Windows failed to start missing file: “/$windows.-BT/Windows/system32/winload.exe”
im now trying to make a “win xp” usb or a “win 7″ usb..
May 8th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
@Rasmus:
oh, that sounds bad. I tried it that way as well, and of course it didnt work, but i could still boot xp. your system seems to be really screwed. if you cant manage to boot xp, i would suggest to do this:
1. get a linux to boot from usb, launch it and save all your school stuff
2. format all of your hard disks
3. reinstall xp
4. install windows 7 following the guide above.
May 10th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
[...] bit threw us. We were working on an ASUS EEE PC 900 and following this article on MultiMulti’s blog. We couldn’t get the machine to boot from the stick. Turns out weren’t following the steps [...]
May 10th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Hi! Got it finaly to work with my 8GiB Kingston USB stick. Had alot of hassle, but the clue was to format it as NTFS. Looking forward to test W7
May 11th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Hi I have read your blog with great interest as I am wanting to istall windows 7 on my eee 701. I cannot get any installation on the 4gb hard drive as it always says not enough space as I have xp on there. I wanted to install it on the 4gb sd card I have. I’m a little confused exactly how to do this from all the above. I have tried to make my 16gb usb stick bootable but its not recognised by petousb. (I have previously been able to make it bootable with the diskpart method). Can you clarify that I would be installing win 7 FROM the USB bootable drive TO the sd card? Also how would the sd card be bootable to allow this? Excuse me if these are really stupid questions!!!!!!!
May 11th, 2009 at 10:04 am
@vicky:
oh, that are interesting questions. first of all, make sure that your USB stick is supported by PeToUSB. I couldn’t get it working with sticks bigger than 4GB, but some guys did (see comments above). then just follow the instructions and create a bootable usb stick. plug it into your Eee PC and insert the SD card (but you need more than 4GB, Windows 7 needs around 9GB), boot from it, and see whether you can select the SD card as target device (should be working, other guys managed to do it).
Once it’s installed on it, booting should work as well. Otherwise google it.
May 15th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
Hi,
I have a EEEPC 900
Followed all the steps
Booted from USB stick>Installing Win7
After 40 minutes, system rebooted
Dos Prompt came up stating Disc system error..Ctrl ALt Del to restart
It just loops back to the error
Tried ESC boot to USB and Windows re-intall from the start.
It just goe around in Circle.
Hard Drive is Fine
Was running UBuntu prior
Any assistance please..Im going crazy..
PS..Bios setup to OS start
May 15th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Problem fixed..
Required to perform System Repair.
Thanks
May 15th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Okay, good that you managed to solve it.
May 17th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
Hi people,..
I did everything as told in the tutorial.. Anyway I stalled when using the bootsect.. bootsect doesn’t open at all, and when inserting the cmd in the start menu, I go the path where I’ve downloaded it, but it just doesn’t work.. When I choose the right path, it says: BootSect is not a valid WIN32 application or says it doens’t recoign this file as a batch file.. anaybody could help me out here?
THX!
May 17th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Ok, it worked fine!! tried it a few times and now it workes just fine!
I would like to thank all of you for the greattutorial over here, without this, I wouldn’t managed it!! So big thumbs up for his site!!
Much appreciated!
June 4th, 2009 at 10:26 pm
Thanks for the tut, windows 7 installed fine on my eee pc 900 with a 64 GB SSD and 2 GB ram. I’m dual booting with Ubuntu Jacky Jackalope. The graphics drivers out of the box recognize the native 1024 x 600 resolution, but it says my driver is incompatible for running Aero when I test it. Thanks!
June 12th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
If you have the issue with resuming Windows 7 after hibernating, a guy called “dave0065″ sent me the solution:
I have found the solution for the sleep and hibernate resume problem. its risky but it helps.
on http://support.asus.com/download/ do you select your model and download the bios update.
I have installed bios version v1006 and couldn’t have any sleep or hibernate problems with windows xp/vista/7.
how to update your bios do you see at the follow video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hakL2tkUI0A but if your bios is broken you can’t repair it !!!!
i have update my bios with windows xp (dual boot)
good luck.
June 14th, 2009 at 2:17 am
i have only one proble so far. when i run the instalation it says that there is no space on any drivers on my computer. then i tried to format my computer, but i’m still having the same problem. do you have any ideas how to fix it?
Thank you!
June 14th, 2009 at 11:30 am
@EMil:
Which Eee PC do you have? The one with 4 + 16 GB or 4 + 8 GB? On which drive do you try to install it?
June 14th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
I got an EEE 900 with 16 gb hard drive.
when I’m running the instalation, it askes me where I want to install windows:
Name: total size: Free space: type:
Disk 0 partition 1 2,3 gb 0,0 Mb Primary
Disk 0 partition 2 12,7 gb 0,0 Mb Primary
Disk 0 partition 3 BIOS 7,0 MB 7,0 Mb Primary
Disk 0 partition 4 7,0 Mb 0,0 mb Primary
I can’t get passed this step.
It also says:
Windows cannot be installed on Disk 0 partition 1. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted as NTFS.
The partition is of an unrecognized type.
How do i change the format?
Thank you
June 15th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
First of all, delete ALL partitions. You’ve still got the Asus Backup stuff there. I have no idea how to do this in Windows 7, but it should be similar to Windows Vista and you can google for it.
When you deleted all partitions, decide whether you want to create 1 or 2 partitions, I would go for 1 if possible. Create a new one and format it using NTFS (quick).
That should help.
June 19th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
It took me two attempts to get everything right (started with an 8 GB USB stick only to find out that it was not possible to boot from it). Then I got a 4 GB stick as suggested in the article and everything went smooth from then on. Am now running Windows 7 RC on my Asus EEE PC. Will buy the retail once it comes out. Any tips on how to upgrade so that my I can carry over my data?
June 19th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Well, the Windows 7 installation offers an upgrade option, though I didn’t try it yet. I’m also using W7 RC on my computer now and hope to upgrade to the final version once it is released. I’m sure the upgrade option will work.
July 7th, 2009 at 12:40 am
I can only describe Windows 7 with one word (is it a word?): Wow. Windows 7 combines Windows XP performance with Windows Vista visuals. As much as I (or anyone, really) hate Vista, I’ve gotta admit it looks freaking great. Thanks a lot for this guide!!! It worked on my Eee PC 1000H, and I’m pretty sure it’ll work on any notebook/netbook that supports booting from a USB. It all worked flawlessly. Of course, transferring the ISO to the USB took a while, but from there, it worked perfect. Installation took about 20-30 minutes: at least 2.5 times faster than XP. Thanks again for a great guide, I’ll use this when I get the original Windows 7 CD in October.
July 7th, 2009 at 10:12 am
@alejo_2308:
Thanks for your positive comment! I can fully agree, didn’t like Vista due to all the compability problems and annoying popup thingys, so had to use XP. Now Microsoft released an operating system including all the cool features from Vista, leaving out the bugs and problems in Vista, and it is in some things even faster than XP! Installation took around 10 minutes on my desktop PC and all the drivers I always have to search for when using XP were included! I love it =)
July 7th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Thanks for these awesome instructions! I’ve just put windows 7 on my girl friend’s 900A. Oh yeah, the video drivers are now included in the version of windows 7 I used (RC 1 7100).
July 13th, 2009 at 7:13 am
Thanks for the tutorial, I’ve successfully installed on a 1002HA with surprisingly few hiccups. Took a few hours but was well worth it.
July 27th, 2009 at 7:53 am
For Eee PC 900.
To make the installation complete with all devices working, leave the current OS installed (XP Home edition) you can then use either DVD/CD USB drive, Flash drive or external HD, with WIndows 7 installation software, run setup, make sure your internet connection is still attached with the current OS to download the updates, choose next the new install and not the update option, after the installation is complete install the ECap software to use your camera (But first make sure it is enabled in the BIOS settings).
By using this option you do not have to contend with attempting to configure the system to see the SSD. Also it will perform better if the SSD in upgraded to a 32gb, also it performs better if you increase the memory to 2gb, then you can run Office 2007 and other applications.
July 29th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
Hi,
I am getting my Asus 1005HA- P next week and planning to install windows 7 on it.
Question- Do I require only 4GB USB drive or can it be bigger than that? I do not have 4 GB but have a external drive of 120GB. Is there any other option I can try without getting 4GB USB drive.
Thanks.
July 30th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I don’t think an external HDD would work. You can try it, but I would rather use a USB drive… you can get 4GB for around 8€ (10$) so it’s worth the investment.
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
did you install the 32 or 64 bit version – I think my 900 has a 32 bit cpu
Cheers, Geoff
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:20 pm
I installed 32bit version, the 900 has a very old Celeron which doesn’t support 64bit.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Just got an Asus Eee PC 900 Netbook with Linux, what do I need to upgrade in order to successfully start and complete this upgrade? Please help. Thank you.
August 17th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Just follow the instructions. You need Windows 7, an USB thumbdrive, and another computer running XP/Vista.
August 18th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Thank you! Do I need to add SSD (32 GB)and memory (2 GB)?
August 18th, 2009 at 2:09 am
And one more really foolish question – do I have to do anything to clear out the Linux so I can do this? Obviously, my inexperience is showing. Sorry. Thank you for your patience.
August 18th, 2009 at 10:09 am
Your 16 or 12GB SSD will be enough, althoug you won’t have much space left then. You can follow the instructions on this website to Shrink Windows 7 to 4GB, just search for it.
2GB of memory would be better, but not necessary.
When installing Windows 7, the setup will automatically format your SSD, so Linux will be cleared out and EVERYTHING else on your hard disk. So make sure you back up all data before installing Windows 7!
August 21st, 2009 at 2:08 am
so i can’t install it to the current disk, because it’s not NTFS.
Ok, so to format it as ntfs…. i need to unmount the disk.
But i can’t unmount the disk.. because i’m on the disk..
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HELP
this is really really annoying me. I’ve got so far in getting windows 7 on it… i just want to get off xandros :’( please tell me how i can unmount the disk while i’m on it
or alternatively, how i can format it to ntfs whilst i’m on it. I can’t format it from the installation because it’s still mounted.
Any help will be the most appreciated help i could ever accept
August 21st, 2009 at 2:53 pm
@Alfie:
slowly… which disk are you trying to format with NTFS? Hopefully not your USB Thumbdrive. Put Windows 7 on the thumbdrive, boot from it, then format your internal SSD, not the thumbdrive! You will be able to format it, since you’re not on the SSD, but running the installer from USB thumbdrive.
September 2nd, 2009 at 7:17 pm
bilingual) Guys, check out this cool site: http://rundumdeneeepc900a.blogspot.com
September 13th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Thank you for this website. I finished installing XP in my eee 900.
After installing, looks like it always need the thumbdrive (USB)inorder for XP to load.
Is this true? (Always need the boot from USB inorder to bring up XP)?
Please help!! Thanks you so much!!
September 13th, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Well, this method doesn’t really work with XP due to the problem you mentioned.
Check out this link for installing Windows XP:
http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html
October 15th, 2009 at 2:06 am
I love you!!! Everyone made a mess impossible for a human being to perform, Thankssss! I installed windows 7 successfully from a dvd
XP suck it
October 18th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
hey thanks a lot man
and cacel installing. it went up to 71% only. i coyed it correctly but what could be tha problem. please help.
i faced a problem, look i copied the DVD to my HDD and than copy that to the FlashJet USB. and when i was installing win7 in the copieng files step it told me that files are missing
thanks
October 18th, 2009 at 1:44 pm
@Zaino:
How did you “copy” the DVD to your HDD? If you just used the Copy & Paste from Windows Explorer, some hidden files may be missing and thus causing the installation problem.
You may try to create an image from your DVD (ImgBurn can do this) and then follow step 2 instead of step 1 under “Put Windows 7 on your bootable thumbdrive”. This way you make sure than every file is really copied.
October 19th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
I installed W7 ultimate on my asus eeepc 900 from an external dvd writer. I activated automatic updates and after the first updates Windows 7 installed the correct video driver itself. Also atheros update for wireless was installed. All seem to work out of the box …
October 29th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
Just installed Windows 7 Ultimate (from MSDN subscription) on my Asus EeePC 904HA following these instructions. I found out it has a Intel GMA 950 and the resolution was correct from the beginning (1024*600) and Aero is working fine.
I installed it with an USB drive. I first tried the new Microsoft tool (Microsoft Windows 7 USB DVD Download tool) to make a bootable usb drive but it did not work. Then I tried to make it with the software mentioned in the tutorial. At first the USB drive was not recognized but after running the program in Administrator mode it was.
Installing went smooth without problems.
Thanks a lot for the instructions.
October 31st, 2009 at 10:38 am
i am using an Asus eee pc 701. Almost everything was successfull but it’s just that when windows is installing, the asus eee pc’s LCD screen is to small to let the windows installlation screen to fit in (it’s just display half of the installation screen) and at last windows failed to install at “expanding windows” 78% and force me to reinstall but it failed at the second time too so, what shoul i do? any solution’s??
October 31st, 2009 at 11:02 am
Never tried it with the 701, but you may check some websites that focus on it: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=57151
November 2nd, 2009 at 2:52 pm
i am using an asus eee pc 701… i have updated everything (bios also) but still failed it says “error 0×80070070″ ,installation failed at second stage “expanding windows”
any solutions????
please help…..
November 2nd, 2009 at 3:49 pm
Well, you don’t have enough space on your 701. As far as I know, it only has a 4GB SSD, and Windows 7 needs around 4GB for its files and another 2GB for temporary stuff and pagefiles.
Your error means “0×80070070. There is not enough space on the disk” ( http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssmartdevicesvbcs/thread/05938131-d32a-4133-b761-df60f93a5eef ), which confirms my assumption. You may follow my other tutorial to solve this issue: http://www.multimolti.com/blog/2009/01/09/shrink-windows-7-to-fit-on-asus-eee-pc-4gb-sdd/
November 2nd, 2009 at 4:23 pm
that is what i did
November 2nd, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Then rather get a Windows 7 Starter version and not the Ultimate, some guy at the other post wrote that it is only 1.3GB and will thus fit onto the SSD without any problems.
November 3rd, 2009 at 10:11 pm
I used this method to install windows 7 onto my 701sd, it works great
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November 5th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
same… no change still the same cuz windows 7 starter is also 7gig
November 8th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Finally… i found solution. This is what i did for my asus eee pc 701
follow the instruction that Lennart Moltrecht (admin)but before you install select repair my computer at installation screen
On command prompt, go back to the letter that has the sources folder, mine was X:, just type X: or whatever yours was, and type setup /noreboot
Code:
X:
setup /noreboot
- Let the installation go until it would normally reboot, but since we used /noreboot, it won’t reboot, it will go back to the command prompt instead.
- Manually reboot and press ESC when it starts to select the installation SD or USB stick again. In case you fail to press ESC, the installation won’t continue, because we removed all boot drives on step 2, just reboot and try again.
[Now here is the catch]
- On the installation, choose repair my computer.
- When it asks for your Windows installation, choose Load Driver. Click OK on the message that appears.
- Navigate to the Windows folder, right click, properties, advanced, check compress this folder, click OK on both screens, and then check the compress subfolders option and click OK again. Go do something else, because it will take a while.
- Do the same for Program Files folder.
[The free space should go quite a bit, in my case from 750 MB to 1.6 GB.]
- Now manually reboot again, you can enter setup and set the main SSD as the first boot drive.
- Exit setup and let the installation continue.
Advantages of this method:
- No ghosting required
- No additional media required
- Pretty straightforward
Disadvantages of this method:
- A little slow
- Might not work on machines with too much RAM
but your eee pc will crash if you compress the wrong file
good luck!
November 8th, 2009 at 12:35 pm
Thanks for the detailed description!
November 9th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Hi, i’d found a way to enable aero in windows 7 (Works from BETA to final version) ~:
The idea is to modify GMA950’s driver and install in my GMA900 eee pc 701 netbook. By this way, you can cheat in windows 7, and enable Aero Glass. But something I must to say is that I can’t guarantee on the stability.(cuz asus eee pc 701 and 900 is running intel GMA900 that the driver is not supported Aero either in windows 7 or vista)
1. find out the hardware ID of your GMA900. (you can view this information in device manager)
2. download a latest Windows 7 or vista driver for GMA950 (i945GM chipset) from anywhere you want. (it’s a good choice to download form intel’s website. down the .zip one, not the .exe)
HERE’S THE LINK
(http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=2301&DwnldID=18231&lang=eng)
3. uncompress the driver.
4. edit a file \Graphics\igdlh.inf, find out the section [Intel.Mfg], and find the hardware ID of 945GM, replace the ID to your GMA900’s.
find this one:
%iCLGD0% = i945GM0, PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_27A2
change to
%iCLGD0% = i945GM0, PCI\(YOUR GMA900 HARDWARE ID THAT YOU FOUND IN THE DEVICE MANAGER)
5. save this file, and install this modified driver, reboot your system.
6. and then…enjoy the Aero Glass…
(PLEASE TELL ME IF I AM WRONG CUZ I’D JUST TRIED IT ON EEE PC 701 NOT 900)
November 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Thanks for the nice guide!
December 7th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
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December 15th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Sorry~
I have already install the window 7 in my eeepc 900
however I cant use the wifi and audio control~
I want to know how can i do?
where can I to download these driver?
Thank a lot!!
December 15th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
you can use the drivers for Windows XP and run them in compability mode or just download new ones from the asus website
December 30th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Hi guys and admin. I got a problem… I did all the things, but when i come to the part when i need to chose to boot with USB, i get 3 alternatives: HDD, san disk (my usb flash drive) and another san disk. But when i click one of the san disk, the screen goes black for 5 sek (like it should do) but then it boots xp not the win7 install. What im a doing wrong? thanks for help.
January 3rd, 2010 at 3:16 pm
Hi, I successfully installed Win7 using this tutorial on my wife’s Eeepc701, however, there’s only 1MB left in the SSD after the install and if there’s a way to reinstall Win7 onto a 8gb sd-card instead of the on-board SSD?
Thank you.
January 3rd, 2010 at 10:58 pm
@David T:
You could try to install W7 on a SD card, but the performance will be very low (SD cards are really slow compared to the integrated SSD or even normal HDDs).
Instead, you may try to shrink your Windows 7 so that it will fit on the 4GB:
http://www.multimolti.com/blog/2009/01/09/shrink-windows-7-to-fit-on-asus-eee-pc-4gb-sdd/
January 14th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
I’m having the same problem as EMil (#140), installing from eee pc 1.1.0.1 (linux). Obviously I can’t format in Windows 7 (ref #141) as it is not yet installed! There is no (active) option for formatting during the windows install.
Do any of you know how to format the drive(s) (12+4GB) for ntfs in the eee OS?
January 15th, 2010 at 12:36 am
@Eirik:
There is an option, it’s just well hidden! When you install W7, it will ask you on which partition to install it. Below, there is just one button to click saying “advanced” or something like that. Click it, and all the options you know from XP installation will be there like deleting, creating and formatting partitions.
January 15th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
@Lennart
The options are there, but greyed out and not selectable. The only partition I am able to format is BIOS.
Screenshot:
http://twitpic.com/y721r/full
I really hope there are other options, it’s very frustrating to be so close without getting there…
January 16th, 2010 at 4:01 pm
@Eirik @Lennart
…ah. Not Format. Delete -> Make New.
Installing Win 7
February 4th, 2010 at 6:50 pm
Hi there…I installed win 7 home premium OEM on my asus 900 (4GB + 16 GB), it works fine, as it did with the 7100 RC…my only problem has been the sleep and hibernate resume issue…I have the 1006 bios, and I’ve read above that to solve the problem you must use an older bios. If I want to install a bigger SSD (32GB or 64GB) i need the 1006 bios in order for it to work. is there any other solution?…thanks in advance.
February 5th, 2010 at 12:07 am
Sorry, I have no idea. I just used the RC on my eee pc and thought the problem was due to a bug in Windows 7 and not because of a BIOS failure. You may ask in Windows 7 forums or Eee support forums.
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February 21st, 2010 at 1:05 pm
For those of you whose Eee PC 900 use a format other than NTFS go here and follow the directions.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/liveusb.php
Once in the Gparted Live from usb then select the drive you want to change to NTFS in the right drop down. Right click the graph of the drive, go to ‘format to’ > ‘ntfs.’ Hit the ‘Apply’ button at the top. Then try installing Win 7! Good luck!
February 21st, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Thanks for the tip!
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