That may work but I had to do some extra stuff to get it to work.MadClaw said:Hahahahha, Windows 7 IS DIFFERENT You can install it off a usb stick, you just need about 4gb
1. Download the Windows 7 ISO, (Assuming you've already done that)
2. Use WinRAR to extract it
3. Put the files on your USB stick and click on the installer
google tells me that all you need to make sure, is that you can boot from it...MadClaw said:Hahahahha, Windows 7 IS DIFFERENT You can install it off a usb stick, you just need about 4gb
1. Download the Windows 7 ISO, (Assuming you've already done that)
2. Use WinRAR to extract it
3. Put the files on your USB stick and click on the installer
xJonny said:It's not a good idea to do this, there's no guarantee it'll work on other computers and Windows OS' don't like being run from pen drives. It'll also probably not be great performance wise.
You could maybe try pen drive linux in some form
BiscuitBee said:4GB of space on your netbook? Yikes. Can't you upgrade that to solve your problems?
I wonder if you could install Windows 7 on a USB Hard Drive and just boot off of that every time. The USB speed would be quite the bottleneck, though.
uhh...Chris_Skylock said:this is why im searching for a HARD DISK based netbook. You cant run an OS from a removable storage if it's a Microsoft-based
Nope, you can't. Tried it at work with a combo USB/eSATA external drive. Though you can install it on a eSATA drive (or at least it seemed so, before the PC's faulty SATA controller striked and killed the installation at 90%).Antoligy said:this guide is nice, but I want to install it ON the thumbdrive - not from the thumbdriveChris_Skylock said:this is why im searching for a HARD DISK based netbook. You cant run an OS from a removable storage if it's a Microsoft-based
uhh...
you DO know that SSD is perfectly usable as a HD right?
Hd's are easily broken physicly (drop netbook. dead. etc..)
SSD's are brilliant, faster etc, just more expensive to make, can be damaged by reading/writing too much (should be fine for several years though)
and I havn't seen a netbook with a HD.
no, his problem wasn't SSD's (windows comes preinstalled on them..) it was lack of space.
Wrong. They're CRAP for the most part (I have an Acer Aspire One which is SLOW as **** because of the crappy SSD. The 160GB SATA version works great though) and expensive.
Also almost every netbook out there has a normal HD in it nowadays, as they discovered months later that SSDs killed speed with XP.
They work fine with Linux though (in fact, most of the netbooks which still have SSDs on them are shipped with a linux distro).
QUOTE(Raki @ Aug 5 2009, 09:19 PM)