Comments on: Installing the Windows 7 beta on a netbook

By: Annoyed

Annoyed — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:01:26 +0000

Quite simply doesn’t work.

Cannot mark as active at all in disk manager.

By: Pat ward

Pat ward — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:09:54 +0000

Yes running well .. still puzzled why I cannot seem to manually adjust the video ram .. must be Dynamic? BUT has anyone had any success with Readyboost fetaure .. ? Is it better does it work ? is it worth using up a usb .. ?

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:19:56 +0000

Bayon! Wot aaaaare you like! Get a VM together. The Fusion user population says that W7 runs brilliantly well inside a Fusion VM, and I would be willing to bet it will be just as good inside VMWare Server 2.0 on XP. Then you don’t have to grovel about on a Netbook!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:15:43 +0000

I also did this just yesterday to my NC10 too. I went for the USB DVD drive approach (since I have one). It all went VERY smoothly.

I ran the DVD from inside Windows XP. I’ve gone for the fresh install of Windows 7 onto the D drive, leaving XP on the C drive as a dual boot.

No problems so far with 1GB of Ram, in fact remarkably nippy. I did also order a 2GB stick of Ram though which will arrive tomorrow. I hoping Windows 7 will love the extra breathing room and flourish even more!

Just need to decide whether to plump for voiding my warranty to install a touchscreen (available on ebay…. search for: NC10 touchscreen). I hear that touchscreen and Windows7 are a combination made for each other… and works in beta just fine.

Mike

By: Gyanaranjan

Gyanaranjan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:43:03 +0000

woohhhhhhhh

By: David Bayon

David Bayon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:35:14 +0000

@John: You can’t boot the ISO but you can unpack the files from the ISO onto a USB drive and boot from that. As for the cut-off date, I’m hoping beta 2 will be out by then! If not I always have a recovery partition to restore it to its XP state.

@Sharon: I’m not actually booting the OS from the USB drive, I’ve merely installed it from there, so I don’t think you could do that.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:22:42 +0000

Could you boot Windows 7 to an Eee 4GB from an SD card leaving XP on the main memory?

By: John

John — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:16:09 +0000

I didn’t know you boot ISO’s off USB drives. But how are you going to install XP again after 1st of August?

By: jez - samsung NC10 Community site

jez - samsung NC10 Community site — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:44:52 +0000

There has been plenty of discussion on the Sammy community site regarding getting the NC10 setup and fully operational with Windows 7. So far feedback as been positive with favourable reports of boot times, memory usage etc compared to Vista. Have Microsoft got it right this time?!