My girlfriend recently bought an Acer Aspire One Netbook. The device came with Meego operating system installed which although looked really nice did not soothe her needs because she needs a Microsoft OS for some programs from work.
My first idea was to install windows XP because she is familiar with it and we had an available iso image for it. I used unetBootin to create the bootable disk from an iso image. After the disk was created the BIOS settings on the netbook were changed so that the first boot device was the usb drive.
The installation went smooth and windows XP was running in no time.
After installing windows XP I faced a major problem: There were no drivers available for the netbook for XP! The drivers were windows 7 only. So back to the drawing board...
I had to install Windows 7 but creating a bootable usb was no longer an option because the USB i have is 3,7GB and the iso image for windows 7 is 3.8 GB. I had to revert to something else.
Luckily daemon tools came to the rescue!
First I split the windows 7 iso to two separate files using winrar and transferred them to the netbook.
I unrarred the image on the netbook.
I mounted the image with daemon tools.
The installation process begun.
I created another partition for the needs of the new operating system and pointed the installer to it.
From here everything was smooth.
In about an hour and a half I had a netbook running windows 7.
After the installation finished I used ninite to install everything I need on it in one click.
After a days work my girlfriend's netbook was running windows 7 and I got a nice surprise for a job well done!
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