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[J.Pocalypse]

Greetings all,

Recently I have upgraded my RAM and HDD, as mentioned in my sig, and while the physical install of each item was dead simple ( for me ), my problem layed in the OS itself. During my early attempts, I went a route that I'm not proud of, and do not condone anyone else try. I'll leave that, at that. The second was, installing Ubuntu 11.04, for the simple reason, it's free. I got it installed just fine, but was having some learning curve frustrations that I just couldn't deal with. As a last resort, I thought to myself, "Let's try the Restore CD..". Sure as hell, it ultimately did exactly what I'd hoped it would. I pushed the power button, then F2, and directed my BIOS to my external CD drive to boot from. F10, then Enter. "Press any key to boot from CD.." - spacebar -. At this point, I wasn't quite sure what to expect, as I'd exhausted all my other options. It actually installed Windows 7 Home Edition 32-bit on my new HDD. Once it's done doing it's thing, keep the CD in, and the drive connected. After the reboot, it'll install all hardware drivers ( which you'll want to update later ) and the various Asus branded programs, if you so choose.

The only specifics I think one needs to worry about, is make sure you use the exact restore CD that came with your Eee. I don't think it'll work with a different model, or version of Win 7.

In short, if you buy a new HDD, your restore CD will reinstall Win 7 on it, and there's no need to buy a new license or clone your old HDD to your new one.

Cheers.

[zeo]

Asus uses a volume license for their Windows installs. So the System disc recovery will work for any same model system. Many models use the same motherboard anyway, and is why the restore isn't picky about the hard drive and you don't need to activate Windows.

Only problem is Asus stopped including the System disc with each system, but you can still purchase one form Asus for about $50. Though you can opt to make your own back up with a clone program backup or use the options given by the recovery partition before you do anything else to the system.