No, but as long as you have the Recovery DVD you can nlite it. . . http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=48980

Just be careful what you remove.

I bought a 4 gig thumbdrive from Walmart for $12. (try not to get SanDisk, altho mine works, I had to remove their software from it first)
If you can afford that , try this link. Saved my bacon.

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=56930
If you can't afford it, I'm not sure how you'd nlite the ASUS recovery, my desktop wont allow me to do it.
Glenn

Well it didn't go to plan, I tried the method on the link and then tried Novicorp WinToFlash but neither liked the i386XP which I renamed to i386 as mentioned

xan_user wrote:

To legally use a regular retail copy of xp you must either have a phone or internet to activate it with M$, otherwise you get to use it for only 30 days at a time before having to reinstall. Registration is optional tho-

Nice of them to tell you that before you accept the EULA. Oh wait they dont tell you!

So will a regular copy of XP Home work with the serial number attached to the notebook ?

defiant wrote:

xan_user wrote:

To legally use a regular retail copy of xp you must either have a phone or internet to activate it with M$, otherwise you get to use it for only 30 days at a time before having to reinstall. Registration is optional tho-

Nice of them to tell you that before you accept the EULA. Oh wait they dont tell you!

So will a regular copy of XP Home work with the serial number attached to the notebook ?

Yes it works, i've 3 license of xp    and 1 cd of xp.

williet wrote:

defiant wrote:

xan_user wrote:

To legally use a regular retail copy of xp you must either have a phone or internet to activate it with M$, otherwise you get to use it for only 30 days at a time before having to reinstall. Registration is optional tho-

Nice of them to tell you that before you accept the EULA. Oh wait they dont tell you!

So will a regular copy of XP Home work with the serial number attached to the notebook ?

Yes it works, i've 3 license of xp    and 1 cd of xp.

Thanks I got a OEM version of XP Home last night so will give it a try sometime & let you guys know here when I've done it

I looked around a bit, and found this.

http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=56930

For this, you need access to another computer (with a DVD drive)...and at least a 4 gigabyte USB stick. Although mine worked...try not to get a SanDisk USB thumbdrive. There is something on those that you have to totally obliterate, and remove before you can use it for this. Havent heard about any problems from any other USB stick makers.

It works if you follow it exactly step by step. (I have a different computer than the author of that thread...and it worked fine on my puter...a 701sd)
In fact, I have left my restore on my 4 gig USB key, and I am gonna buy another one....just to have another 'poor man's' DVD solution.
Now yeah, I have the money to buy a DVD rom for my Eee, but it appears that DVD and CD drives are going the way of the 1.44 floppy drive, and I like learning new ways to do things.

BTW, meant to ask....what are the specs on your Eee??
Mine has a 8 gig SSD, which I will replace, first time I have a chance, and 2 gigs of kingston memory....900 mhz Intel proc

Glenn

you DO extract XP from th4 recovery disk using that method. Onto a USB thumbdrive, which you can restore your computer to its factory out of the box settings.
That post was a way for people without a external USB DVD drive to restore Windows.
If you have an external drive, you don't need to follow that link, unless of course you want a USB version or something.

Glenn

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defiant wrote:

Well it didn't go to plan, I tried the method on the link and then tried Novicorp WinToFlash but neither liked the i386XP which I renamed to i386 as mentioned

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Defiant, what you need to do is create the ident files.  This is very easy to do.  Open Notepad, as if you were going to create a simple text file.  Type the word Windows.  That's all, nothing else.  Now save the file as  "WIN51"   Irt's important to include the quotation marks, otherwise Notepad will give it a .txt extension, and we don't want that.  You should simply have a file named WIN51 containing the word Windows.

Now there are another two files to create in exactly the same way.  The names of these files will depend on which version of XP your eee originally had installed, ie which version is on the recovery disk.

If it was XP home, create another file as above, and call it WIN51IC.   If it was XP Pro, call it WIN51IP.

Finally, the last file depends on what Service Pack was in the original installation.  For XP Home, SP2, create a file called WIN51IC.SP2.  For XP Pro SP2, create a file called WIN51IP.SP2.  If your XP originally came with SP3, then give the last one an .SP3 extension, but do not do this if you have simply ugraded to SP3.  Only the original installation counts.   All these files should just contain the word Windows, and be saved with quotation marks so there is no additional extension.

Once you have the three files with the correct names for your version of XP, put them in the same directory as the I386 folder, and point Nlite at it, and it should create your  Windows installation .iso okay.

If you don't have the correct Service Pack ident file, when you run the installer it will ask you insert the disk with it into drive A.  Because of course SP2 can fit on a floppy, Microsoft....