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    Clean install w/o CDROM ?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by emilem, Aug 5, 2008.

  1. emilem

    emilem Notebook Geek

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    i'm thinking to get x200 w/o the optical drive.

    how can i perform a clean install on such a system ?
     
    emilem, Aug 5, 2008
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    elfroggo Notebook Evangelist

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    I botched the flash drive install a couple times leading to a lot of headache and annoyance, but then I actually read the instructions and it worked fine.

    http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html

    I bought 2 eee pcs and I've installed XP on both of them via 1gb flash drive. The tutorial works great. Once the flash drive has been set up, it can be used over and over for installs.

    Understanding and properly following the procedure took 2 days of free time to install on the first eee pc, the second one took about 30 minutes :)
     
    elfroggo, Aug 5, 2008
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    emilem Notebook Geek

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    thanks for that link

    so you cant partition the HD ?

    "From this point on it is just like any other windows XP installation delete/recreate the primary partition on your EEE pc and format it using NTFS. Make sure you delete ALL partitions and recreate a single partition or you will get the hal.dll error message."
     
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    elfroggo Notebook Evangelist

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    you can partition your hard drive still. That part is just exclusive to the EEE pc because one of the partitions holds some bios information (or something like that)
     
    elfroggo, Aug 5, 2008
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