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Installing Windows 7 on my Asus EEE 900

written by Michael on Thursday, January 15th, 2009 at 23:47

I was thinking of giving Windows 7 Beta (available as a free download) a spin on my Asus EEE 900, as Windows 7 is supposed to be able to run on Netbooks. I downloaded the beta ISO from Microsoft website, burned it to a DVD+R and booted the EEE 900 from an external DVD drive (if you have as many netbooks and slim laptops, like the Thinkpad X40, as I do it makes sense to invest in a USB DVD drive).

The installation steps has been documented at multimolti’s Techblog, but it fails to mention in the main article (but later mentioned in the comments section) that Windows 7 has to be installed on the second, larger (16 Gb in case of the Linux version), SSD drive as the first SSD drive (4 Gb) lacks the diskspace required.

Some pictures from the installation process:

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The Asus EEE 900, which has been upgraded to 2 Gb RAM, gets an Windows Experience Index score of 1.0.

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However it is to be noted that drivers for ethernet, video and yet to be identified device is not installed yet.

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Once I have fixed that I will re-run the assessment to see if it scores any better (it should do, the scording of “graphics” and “gaming graphics” pulled down the total score).

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One Response to “Installing Windows 7 on my Asus EEE 900”

  1. pingback from Windows 7 on the EEE 900, 24 hours later | Michael Boman
    January 16th, 2009 at 23:42

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