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Installing Windows on a Netbook?

Illusio

Illusio

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My wife got a Sylvania G Netbook which is running Gnome. However she would rather have windows on there. So i'm trying to figure out how to install the OS on the computer, which doesn't have a CD drive. I dont' have a USB cd either. I'm not sure if that woudl work anyway, looking in the BIOS, the only boot options are either the Hard Drive or something called: PCI BEV: Realtek Boot Agent.

Can anyone help? The manufactuerer says it's doable, they even released drivers:
http://www.digitalgadgets.com/gnotebook.php

I'm just not sure how to get the OS on there.
 
USB flash drive is better and very cheap to buy...Kingston flassh usb can sell for 10 bucks than external dvd drive for 70 bucks.
 
I formatted my flash drive to NTFS, directly copied the windows contents onto it, then booted via the USB flash drive and installed windows 7 just fine.
 
MadScientist said:
What did you use/do to make the flash drive bootable?
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Nothing. While my laptop booted up I just hit F10 to go to the boot screen, then hit USB. Went right into it no problems. I have used this same flash drive as a bootable Ubuntu drive in the past, but that really should have no bearing because I have formatted the drive a half dozen times since then.

I honestly didn't expect it to work, but after reading some of the guides out there that made booting from a flash drive seem like a pain I just thought I would give the easy way a shot first. It worked for me.

btw my drive is a kingston 8gb.
 
Alienwho said:
Nothing. While my laptop booted up I just hit F10 to go to the boot screen, then hit USB. Went right into it no problems. I have used this same flash drive as a bootable Ubuntu drive in the past, but that really should have no bearing because I have formatted the drive a half dozen times since then.

I honestly didn't expect it to work, but after reading some of the guides out there that made booting from a flash drive seem like a pain I just thought I would give the easy way a shot first. It worked for me.

btw my drive is a kingston 8gb.
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I didn't think it would work either. I formatted my 4GB ADATA flash drive to FAT32, copied and pasted the files from my Win 7 32bit disk to the drive, and it booted into the install from the flash drive. I bet this only works with Win 7 though.
 
MadScientist said:
I didn't think it would work either. I formatted my 4GB ADATA flash drive to FAT32, copied and pasted the files from my Win 7 32bit disk to the drive, and it booted into the install from the flash drive. I bet this only works with Win 7 though.
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It works for windows 7, vista, and some forms of linux. Win XP won't boot from usb, at least not when using the same process.
 
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