Anyone tried installing W7 on a netbook?

[sportage]

I might get a netbook. Sister has one and they are perfectly small, lite and just what I've been waiting for. But many of them come with XP. I wondered if W7 could install on a netbook?

 

[Hyperlite]

That is one of its intended markets. =)

 

[sportage]

Was looking at the acer netbook at wally world (would never buy it there, however).
A big sticker on the screen said "YOUR KIDS FIRST COMPUTER".
Kinda turned me off. Is this intended to be a kids computer?
Sounds like it should be going for $150 tops. Not $300-$400.

 

[thescreensavers]

Installed it on a EePC 1000H works fine.

Network a CD Rom Drive, click on auto run in windows and let it install. Very easy

Later on there will be a netbook edition

 

[gcy]

Tried on Acer Aspire One - could not find the hard drive, I think acer hides the HD in bios. Has anybody loaded this on an Aspire One?

Actually it was gparted could not locate the drive. I was trying to shrink Windows XP to have room for W7

 

[KeypoX]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Installed it on a EePC 1000H works fine.

Network a CD Rom Drive, click on auto run in windows and let it install. Very easy

Later on there will be a netbook edition

also installs very easy from a usb stick.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: sportage
Was looking at the acer netbook at wally world (would never buy it there, however).

If Wally World had the best price, why would you not buy it there? Do you really believe there is a actual difference between the business practices between Wally World and Best Buy?

Back on topic:

Windows 7 is targeting the netbook market specifically. If you do decide to try out the beta, make certain you either have recovery disk/partiton or that you use imaging software to create a image first of the XP installation on the netbook. That way if Win 7 is not going to work, you can easily and quickly restore XP to it's original state.

 

[skisteven1]

Win7 runs great on netbooks!

 

[QuantumPion]

jkkmobile.blogspot.com has a 30 min video review of win7 on netbooks.

 

[BD2003]

I've installed it on netbook-level hardware (Celeron M 1.2, 1GB ram).

It didnt run nearly as well as I would have liked once I opened a program or two, dare I say vista ran better. If youre gonna put it on a netbook, youll probably realistically want more than 1gb of ram.

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: BD2003
I've installed it on netbook-level hardware (Celeron M 1.2, 1GB ram).

It didnt run nearly as well as I would have liked once I opened a program or two, dare I say vista ran better. If youre gonna put it on a netbook, youll probably realistically want more than 1gb of ram.

Celeron M is really eh.. lol CPU, your going to need to go to the Appearance settings and uncheck everything but One of them which keeps windows 7 theam, just forgot which one to check. Instantly everything worked a lot better and much more responsiveness.

THis is on a 2.4ghz celly 512mb of ram VIA graphics, like 6 years old runs a bit slow due to CPU bottle neck but good enough to use.

 

[BD2003]

Its not running aero or anything, just the basic theme. It was pretty clear from the HD activity that excessive swapping was the problem.

 

[sportage]

Was looking at the acer netbook at wally world (would never buy it there, however).

Yes, it was a price issue. Amazon will always have lower prices than wally.
Plus, no tax.

 

[Zero001]

I've installed Windows 7 32bit on my Dell Mini 9. It's been three days and so far so good.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Installed it on a EePC 1000H works fine.

Network a CD Rom Drive, click on auto run in windows and let it install. Very easy

Later on there will be a netbook edition

also installs very easy from a usb stick.

how did you get that going? Mine always fails to boot

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: DixyCrat

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Installed it on a EePC 1000H works fine.

Network a CD Rom Drive, click on auto run in windows and let it install. Very easy

Later on there will be a netbook edition

also installs very easy from a usb stick.

how did you get that going? Mine always fails to boot

Just how I would install any other OS, it was easy pop in CD start installer next time it was up Win 7 was on it.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: DixyCrat
how did you get that going? Mine always fails to boot

Did you set the PC to boot off of USB in the bios first?

 

[Jschmuck2]

I've had W7 running on my EEE for three days now, just about flawlessly. It flies. No joke. I'm bummed because Daemon Tools won't work - but I networked my virtual drive on my Vista desktop, so that's a convenient workaround.

 

[ronach]

There is an easier way if your hardware will allow it;

1- Repartition or resize your harddrive..in my case I have a Samsung 750 Gig H/D with XP Home on it. I used EASEUSpartitionmanagerPro [ free download from web ]. The Samung was resized to 400/300 [ approx ] Xp 400 gig..300 for the Win 7 install, the new 300 gig partition was formatted and I used NTFS format.

2- I Downloaded the Win 7 ISO onto my Xp drive..then copied it to my new 300 gig drive [ in my case it was drive j: ..your drive letter will more than likely be different ]. I left clicked the Win 7 ISO file and the installation of win 7 was on it's way.

3- After the install was completed..it rebooted for the last time and walla..I had a dual boot choice between an earlier version of windows or Win 7.

Have fun with Win 7..it runs just fine on my sys.

 

[KeypoX]

for the usb guide... many are available via google
http://www.intowindows.com/how...led-100-working-guide/

 

[Dr. Zaus]

Originally posted by: DixyCrat

Originally posted by: KeypoX

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Installed it on a EePC 1000H works fine.

Network a CD Rom Drive, click on auto run in windows and let it install. Very easy

Later on there will be a netbook edition

also installs very easy from a usb stick.

how did you get that going? Mine always fails to boot

figured it out, my USB key had the boot sector taken up by it's BS software for 'computability'

 

[sportage]

Did it. Works slick.