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Damnit I forgot to bookmark it.
So I have had a few drinks tonight and I am having one hell of a **** time finding this post.
It was simple, it explained:
What you needed to restore XP from the EEE Driver CD without CD rom (Via USB Stick). It explained you need a win 98 Boot files, and then you copy some files from the DVD (iso or Ghost) onto flash. It used the iso from the dvd restore disk. Wheres that how-to?!?! I should have bookmarked it. I installed EEEBuntu and the damn thing has a 2 minute boot time! i need my xp back
So
Thanks in advanced
Cheers and happy ST PATRICKS DAY!
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Last edited by monkeysoup (2009-03-18 4:17:06 pm)
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There's a guide in the wiki section about installing/reinstalling windows, but if you have deleted the original partitions, you should start with a brand new installation rather then a rollback.
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Well yes the partitions are changed, shouldnt the reinstall from the driver DISC prompt to reset them? I dont have an XP HOME disc available. I just have an upgrade disc with key thats in use, as well as an OLD OEM HP XP disc.
SO I do NEED to run it from the driver disk.
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I'm not completely sure, but the support disc should use one of the partitions that are on the ssd for the rollback, however there's a method to extract the files from the disc to create a brand new installation (if i remember correctly). I'll try to look for the method as soon as i'm back home.
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If only one thing should be stickied, or at least top of all the others, it is that users should ensure they have an appropriate restoring procedure under hand BEFORE they install whatever other OS, and link to the different techniques thereby.
If no mistake from what i am writing (my eeepc came with linux, no xp restoring dvd), two different techniques are described in this forum concerning xp restoring: restoring the set of ghost gho files, and extracting from the dvd xp files so as to realize a xp cd or usb booting device.
The trouble with realizing, as said, a win98 boot stick as described by others and myself for these purposes is that dos7 (i.e. win 98 bootstick) probably won't be able to see and format the now ext2/ext3 partitions: you would first need before a gparted or puppee linux live usb or cd, so as to format the partitions back to a whole fat32 or ntfs system, and then write, from your win98 stick where nt bootfiles and fdisk copied, the xp mbr.
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Well here is MY question, If I utilize an External DVD rom and use the Driver CD to reinstall windows, will it reformat the partitions how they should be? Thanks.
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Altough i said i haven't a factory xp eeepc and i cannot absolutely be sure of what i said, i thought i had answered your question: the gho files on the restoring cd/dvd are only able to rewrite a xp image to a xp known partition, and are not a xp install mean.
You should first either extract these install files from the cd as documented in this forum, either first format your ssd as a xp system in order to then restore these gho images to the ssd: i dont think it can do the job directly to linux partitions, but it doesn't cost you anything to try.
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Here is all I was wanting, thanks to Camion from http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?SLa … p;count=12
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Hi All,
Here You are updated recovery process (I think more User friendly and ease to everybody).
Needed things:
1) 1xUSB Key (4GB is enough)
2) DVD disc from EEEPC (bought with EEEPC)
3) Modified Windows Live USB Edition by me download it from here:
http://rapidshare.com/files/183805049/W … covery.rar
Recovery process:
1) Unpack downloaded WXP_Live_USB_Edition_for_EEEPC_Recovery.rar somewhere to the home or office PC which have optical drive.
2) Plug the USB Key to this PC and run Hpusbfw.exe program (You will find it in WXP_Live_USB_Edition_2009 folder after unpacking).
- Select Your USB Key
- select FAT32 from File system
- type Volume label for example EEEPC
- Check in the quick format check box. (All other things have to be Unchecked)
- Format Your USB Key (Thanks to adit. infos from osnik this works only under Win XP)
3) Copy whole content of WXP_Live_USB_Edition_2009 folder to the USB Key (don't create any folder just copy the files to root of USB Key). I've cleared everything not necessary and I've putted there the Ghost32.exe program so no more extra steps.
4) Copy the eeePC1.gho and eeePC2.gho from EEEPC DVD recovery folder to the USB Key (creating folders are not necessary, You can copy them directly to the USB Key Root).
5) Plug Your USB Key to the EEE PC, press the power button and periodically press the ESC key on keyboard. You will be able to select which source drive will be use for booting.
Select from the boot menu Your USB key. And wait until Windows USB edition loads.
6) Press the GO (like Start button in Windows) and press the Run from the menu. Browse for Ghost32.exe and Run it. In ghost menu select Local > Disk > From Image and browse for eeePC1.gho file (For drive C). Press open and choose Your drive C. After this task is done and the drive C is recovered use same steps for drive D recovery (Local > Disk > From Image and browse eeePC1.gho file) just choose Your D drive.
Thats all for recovery process.
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What seems important in what you wrote is that, opposite to what i thought, restoring gho files is possible to linux file system.
It is not true that HP format only works under XP.
And of course, downloading a pirated xp version is easier then to legally create by yourself a booting win98 stick, as you first asked, or a booting xp stick.
But not allowed to be discussed, and most stupid to ask people to help you doing your job if you first intended not to read anything but only to use pirated stuff: it is your right, but also your duty in such conditions not to have in these conditions anyone lose his time with your questions.
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I'm majorly confused about what you're trying to do? Maybe it's the drinks?
Two very important questions:
-Did the system come preinstalled (from Asus) with Windows XP?
-Do you have a USB optical drive?
If the answer to both of these is yes, you should be able to pop the restore disc in the drive, boot from it, and restore your computer to factory WindowsXP condition. It will erase all partitions, and set as need be.
XP Yes, Optical drive, No: The following guide talks about how to restore factory condition by creating bootable USB drives:
http://wiki.eeeuser.com/restore_1000h
XP No, Optical drive Yes: If your system did not come with Windows XP, and you have a sesperate licensed version. Other companies "restore" discs generally won't work, but an actual genuine XP disc will. You absolutely must have at least SP2, but preferably SP3 on your CD. Check here for instructions on adding it: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/slipstreamsp3
Boot from CD, erase partitions, let XP setup create partions, and finish setup. After setup you can insert the driver CD and install the drivers.
XP No, Optical drive No: Much the same as above, follow these steps to make a bootable USB: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/windowsxpusb
Last edited by Turionaltec (2009-03-18 4:10:47 pm)
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I agree with you brucine that would be the easier way to go. I should have done that, however I do worry about finding uncorrupt ones...you can PM me.
I seem to have it all figured out, but my question is in Ghost, it created an EFI system partition. Is this necessary ? Will it harm the SSD ? Is it similar to a swap?
Yes it probably was the drinks with the original question, my apologies.
*Edit* Just read it contains Boot info, not acts as swap**
Last edited by monkeysoup (2009-03-18 4:27:48 pm)
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Maybe this helps http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=56930
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Shortly said, EFI does not have the booting info, but the boot booster info.
Some people consider as a contest booting their eeepc in the shortest time possible.
Everytime i activate boot boster in my 7014G bios, i crash the computer; but even if it was not so, i wouldn't have kept EFI i just consider as a waste of disk space.
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Is it possable to use the dvd .gho images to restore/install windows to a different partition ? I have both the original XP and Xandros DVDs and would like to make it dual boot. I have seen lots of instructions how to do this with non Asus XP but none with the original.
This is on a 701 EeePC. The version I have seems to need two partitions for XP sda1 which is 25MB and sda2 which I have slimmed down to 1.25 GB I intend to us a SDHC card for storage. Or would it be a better idea to change Xandros boot from sda3 ?
Thanks Auda
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Auda wrote:
Is it possable to use the dvd .gho images to restore/install windows to a different partition ?
Yes - see the thread I linked to in my post above... when you run ghost it gives you the option of where you want to install the image to... however ghosts doesn't give you the option to partition a drive, so if you follow the tutorial it will always show the complete SSD as a the partition to install the ghost image to. It might be worth looking for a simple partitioning tool that would run under the windows PE environment so you could then partition the SSD into what ever sizes you want and then use ghost to, provided it is of suitable size to handle the images. Having said that, I'm not 100% sure you wouldn't run into problems if you restore a ghost image that taken from a windows installation on drive C and then ghost it back to drive D ?
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