I’ve just done this successfully on a EEE 900 4+8 GB SSDs

You can shrink the partition in Windows Disk Management after shrinking the files down

Then backup a “System Image” with Windows Backup and Restore

Then boot your Windows 7 setup USB drive

Go to “Repair” then restore your System Image onto the 4GB…

I deleted the contents of the 8GB one first, but that meant I had to restart the setup before it would do the restore correctly… I don’t think you have to delete the larger SSD first…

1. Do steps up to create Win 7 bootable thumb drive
2. ignore Acronis steps
3. After installing 7 on large SSD, follow guide to shrink size of Windows
4. After Windows shrunk, shrink the partition to less then 3.76 GB using Windows Disk Management
5. After shrinking the partition, backup a System Image using Windows Backup and Restore
6. Boot using the Windows 7 setup thumb-drive again
7. After choosing language, choose “Repair” option
8. Choose bottom option to restore System Image
9. Make sure your Ext HDD or other thumbdrive with the backup is connected
10. Restore onto the Small SSD, by using the “Format and Partition” option… READ the text, you need to check the other drives you have connected SO they REMAIN UNAFFECTED
11. Once restore is complete you have Windows 7 on the Small SSD
12. Remember to delete/reformat the large SSD for storage.
13. I changed the “location” of all the default media folders to reduce filling of small SSD.
14. Guide I wrote on another site here: http://www.overclock.net/ssd/761471-moving-your-documents-pictures-videos-folders.html

I can’t seem to find the cause of the problem and the reg fix that people have posted on the internet doesn’t work either…

It’s anoying to have everything working apart from the sound and webcam xD, I even got office 2010, a virus scanner and windows live messanger on this little thing…

Oh yea and a great acpi driver for your Eee PC is this one: http://gecko.me/?acpifix

Paul

Step 13: Now recover the first partition of 100MB (System Reserved) using Ghost Server and your Hiren ISO onto your 4GB VM HHD, make sure you recover it as a partition size of 13MB. (This will give you 83MB more on you main drive).
Step 14: Start-up your VM on your 16GB HDD again and start Disk Manager, create a new partition on the 4GB HDD which uses the rest of the memory on the disk. (Partition 1: System Reserved 13MB, Partition 2: The rest)
Step 15: Using Ghost Server/Hiren ISO recover the other main partition onto the second partition which you just created on the 4GB HDD.
Step 16: Remove the 16GB HDD from your VM options and make your 4GB VM drive your main drive. Mount your Windows 7 ISO at start-up and start repair/cmd (don’t allow windows to repair itself) and enter the following in Command:
BCDEDIT /set {bootmgr} device boot
BCDEDIT /set {default} device partition=d:
BCDEDIT /set {default} osdevice partition=d:
Step 17: Now restart your computer and run the 4GB at start-up, clean the HDD using Disk Cleanup tool from windows, I also recommend you use portable CCleaner (http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/builds )and RED ( Remove Empty Directories, http://www.jonasjohn.de/lab/red.htm ) and you may also remove Windows Services by starting cmd and enter the following in Command:
sc delete ‘Service Name’
This will all help the performance of your Eee PC.
Step 18: Now you’re ready to install Windows 7 on your Eee PC, create a ghost of the whole 4GB disk on your VM and then make a Hiren boot USB to recover it onto your Eee PC, copy you’re newly made ghost file onto your Hiren boot USB and just run a local recovery onto your Eee PC HDD. (You can also recover it from your computer via your network back to your Eee PC or via a second memory stick if your main USB is not large enough but local is faster)
Step 19: after installation you will notice that Windows 7 is automatically installing the Eee PC system drivers and you have lost a lot of memory because of this… regain a lot of memory by starting cmd and Disabling hibernation in cmd: powercfg.exe -h off.

Lol I dunno were I find the time, I’m definitely using RT7Lite to make an image for my computer!

Now im busy putting windows 7 on it, I’ve had Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook on it and now im running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop/Laptop version on it but Linux OS are anoying and require alot of research for every little installation..

The CPU also runs at 630Mhz on a standard os (there is a fix for this on by downloading the linux program cpufrequtils), but with windows you can fix this more easyly by using eeectl (http://cpp.in/dev/eeectl/).

I started working on the Windows 7 image yesterday and been playing with it and playing with the VM’s, I’ve been having problems with the vLite installations but I could be deleting too meny componants xD… anyways I installed the full Windows 7 installation on a 16GB VM and i noticed that the full installation takes 9GB so im gonna see if I can downgrade that to 4GB otherwise im gonna start using vLite again!

I’ll probably be using Norton/Symantic Ghost to put the image onto my 701, ill leave a message here when I got it up and running!!

Paul

Thank you very much for your great tutorial. Very good effort… very much appreciated. I was able to get Win Seven up and running in a breeze in an Acer Open AO101 with less than 8 GB storage available.
It was fun and very easy to get the job finished with your really step by step instructions. Lol
Regards.

I beg someone to upload to megaupload the acronis image to install directly on e 4 gb ssd.

please, i`ve tried a lot of times with no result and a new ssd cost 150€ a cool one I not quite on the move for it, at least in spain the new netbooks cost 300€ so it doesn`t have sence.

thanks a lot