@TheNakedWombat you don't half to do this this is stupid, just make a bootable USB stick search it on youtube and then just install windows that way instead of getting into this hardware mess?
Someone may or may not have said this, but I will anyway... You could have set that drive as a master in your machine and installed XP from there. The only thing that could have made issue would have been drivers. To move that hard drive from one rig to the next, XP has little problem.
In my old IT job before I got laid off the company had rules strictly prohibiting paid software from being installed from anything other than the original disc. Maybe he thought that, i dunno...
Bullshit, i have the same eeepc, you can find XP that is special made for usb flash drive and it even works in sd memory card, so you don't have to worry about buying CD drive, but there is some ways to do it for about half a price then buying external cd or dvd, but for now i will keep it for secret ; )
Because the CD drive won't fit in a chassis that small. Remember that the EeePC is a netbook, with a 10" or smaller screen. Most netbooks don't have CD drives.
Rickem if you ever need to do this again, USB (Universal Serial Bus) will work perfectly all you need to do is format your USB drive with another computer and then all you need to do
is toss the .ISO image for the operating system takes about 10 minutes. Once you have the poper ISO image on the Flash drive you will be fine to boot up the installation instantly upon boot up you might need to reconfigure your BIOS to make sure your accessing the correct drive.
its an Asus EEE-PC Netbook...no optical drives or disk-based hard drive.its a solid state HDD(microchip).They work great till you crash the operating system.Theyre easy to restore tho...its in the startup menu.The models that came pre-installed with Linux run way better....i sell them.All the 900 models with XP get returned because they get crashed with a virus.I havent seen a Linux 900 come back ever.
@netrioter exactly y u dont use windows the EeePC and ALL NETBOOKS for that matter DO NOT have the power to handle WIndows XP Windows XP need 4x what the processor of Netbooks have linux is the ONLY choice for a netbook
anytime you hook up an infected hard drive as a slave there a good chance of infecting your system, Rick you should run a virus scan just for good measure
viral scans now days can be narrowed down to a folder or even a file. All rick would have had to do was place all the files he recovered into a folder and scan the folder with any halfway decent anti-virus software. Easy as pie.
you could have copied all files from your windows XP disc to an USB flash drive, put it in the USB of the Eee pc, and made it boot from the USB flash drive by configuring the BIOS. The set-up would have started and you could have installed it that way. I did it this way multiple times with windows XP, Vista and 7 ^^
Hey Rick, Great idea ya got there. You know your stuff. Another idea that i used on a similar laptop (Netbook actually) was to download Ubuntu Linux for free from their website (in ISO format) and put it on a usb stick. Then installed on the Netbook it worked fantastically and less laggy than XP. Since it was my niece's Netbook i didn't mind losing XP and teaching her how to use Ubuntu. Linux don't get viruses either so thats another advantage.
Take Care, n hope ya'll had a gr8 time last night.
I managed to make (and use) a bootable win xp and ubuntu on a usb drive and on a memory card, also have a "boot disk" version of the two but that is back then :P
Good stuff Rick...you really dont come off as a guy whose computer savy haha...
Seriously though, clean up that rats nest of wires in your case bud, that's terrible for case flow/ventilation.
Also i dont know many people who own those old external IDE HDD bay enclosures but new ones are fairly cheap...well so is an external DVD-Rom these days...
Instead of doing it ass half backwards, all you had to do was create a bootable usb drive with your Windows installation file on it. Put the usb stick in the EEee pc usb slot, turn it on and you're done. Probably didn't even have to format the harddrive and lose all the data. Just would have done a system repair, 20 minutes and problem solved. Remember that for next time "BOOTABLE USB" google that. I've done it to install O/S on netbooks, it will make your life easier.
Rick Mast, Canada's greatest unknown hacker the world has yet to see. Glad to see your not one of the folks thats completely lost when it comes to technology thats new in the past couple years.
The other, probably easier way of doing it, is taking a flash drive, making it bootable, and copying the contents of the Windows disc onto there. Then, you just boot from the flash drive and you're good to go. You only need a 1 GB flash drive for XP (since it came on CD). That's an interesting workaround you did though. Nice!
By the way, one thing you might want to do, while you're reconnecting that disc drive on your PC, is to tie some of those cables back, for better airflow in the case.
Theres going to be a lot of confused "rednecks" in the states after watching this one. Word might even get out that you and dave only play rednecks on youtube. I dont blame you guys, its good for views, I guess all the white kids in the states gave up on trying to be hood, so they flocked to the redneck scene so they could latch on and call themselves something. These people do not kno what a redneck truly is. Come on folks cant rick be computer and automobile savy? I mean he is Canadian :D
I actually said trying to BE HOOD, as in the act of being gangster, hard, a thug. How ever you want to say it...You know im right all these people praising a redneck lifestyle? Incest and mobile homes is more like it, you arent a redneck just because you like trucks.
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Your rig is a fucking mess, but I guess that goes along with how you look...
BTW, people who have those types of PC's should be fully aware that re-installing can be a hassle if you don't have the right equipment, but you should know that before you guys unless you are a total moron like your friend obviously is...
Excellent idea of disassembling a external hard drive then connecting it to a cd drive to just get windows onto it. But if you had an extra sata cd drive couldnt u just connect that from the back of the pc? I love me eee pc. So far so good, no problems at all.
This is pretty much what I do for CD-driveless laptops/netbooks, but I already have an external DVDRW drive, so that parts sorted, it's just a pisser that you can;t use a USB stick to install windows!!! You can with Linux though I think... :)
thats what i said, and it's really not that special, im 14 and know how to do it without any videos, then again his username is redneckrickem and he just "rednecked" a computer lol
Ah Rick the pooter geek! My new favorite subscription. lol my external drive case looks just like that, missing the top and everything. I don't understand why people rip on netbooks because of a lack of an optical drive. They're solely built for mobile internet/office apps and 6+ hours battery, not ripping DVD's and playing games. I like my EeePC :) if I ever have to do this, im going with OSX.
Another way to do it without buying an external hard drive is to make a image of the ISO and put it on the flash drive, then set the flash drive as the primary boot device and it should start the install like usual.
i cant do that with mine, i got the first eee pc model (701) and its flash based so removing the drive isnt a option ive used 4gb keys to reinstall whatever i want to put on it, it is possible to put xp onto a usb key to install it, but i cant remember the steps. i have done this, didnt have a xp licence key for it.
if the computer is new enough and has XP it should have the restore stuff on a seperate partion. Ya hit a certain key sequence as it boots up and it takes ya to the restore menu. Thats how most comps come that ive seen if it dont come with a restore cd its self.
You can also re-install one of those things from the ethernet port by entering the bios and selecting "Boot from network". It's easier said than done because you have to have another computer set up in a certain way on the other end of the cable. Google "Preboot Execution Environment" or PXE for more informations.
Pretty sure you couldve put XP on a flash drive then booted it. Its alittle more complicated then what you did. But you if you dont have an external enclosure you could.
Dude.....you aren't a Redneck....you're a poser. Dude you're a f@#king computer nerd man. What's up with that dark room? You've got some kind of giant server stored in there you don't want folks seeing, so you kept the lights off so we couldn't get the scope on your equipment. That looked like something in my IT dept at work's Server Room. Some high tech sh%t. You go with your bad self Bill Gates aka Redneck Rickem.
I installed Windows 7 onto my sisters netbook (Acer Aspire) using a thumb drive and putting the files on the thumb drive make the thumb drive bootable and just installed.
You can do it with XP too, easy. There are specific programs made just for this, condensing a install CD down onto a bootable USB format. Works great.
I love my eee pc i don't have any trouble with it because mine is the Linux version though i did have to buy an external case as xandros it is installed with was crap i installed mandriva linux 2010 fast and stable, i use mine as a video player i use xp on my desktop pc which i built myself you need to tidy your wiring and cables up. the insides of my pc is very clean and tidy unlike my mind which is filthy dirty lol.
I've done the same with some Dell laptops, without the original disk, you can't reload Windows with the SATA drivers, so you have to slap the HD into a machine with an onboard SATA controller.
There is a much easier way to re-load windows on one of those or any pc by useing imaging software. you make an image of your entire pc set up (drives drivers settings etc) which is like a back up and if your system fails you can just run the backup utility directly from your external hard drive or even an external USB thumb drive and re-image the pc in a few minutes. everything will be exaclty the same as before same partitions same settings everything.
good work man
Mercie22 8 months ago
My wife bought one those and what a mistake that was.
TheNakedWombat 11 months ago
@TheNakedWombat you don't half to do this this is stupid, just make a bootable USB stick search it on youtube and then just install windows that way instead of getting into this hardware mess?
iTalkApple96 10 months ago
thats y u dont have windows hope he learned his lesson
Matthew55904 1 year ago
@Matthew55904 only poofters use mac's
flysiksv21 1 year ago
@flysiksv21 i wasnt talkin bout mac fuck mac Mac and Windows are both shit
Matthew55904 1 year ago
Junk
PonyPower71 1 year ago
where did you get windows xp from ?
danielturon1 1 year ago
@danielturon1 pirated it probably
Matthew55904 1 year ago
You can use memory cards to install windows as well. takes a lot less time as well.!
invazen 1 year ago
Someone may or may not have said this, but I will anyway... You could have set that drive as a master in your machine and installed XP from there. The only thing that could have made issue would have been drivers. To move that hard drive from one rig to the next, XP has little problem.
phyrekitsune 1 year ago
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ValentineZwei 1 year ago
i never would have thought 2 do that, thats clever
bscross32 2 years ago
In my old IT job before I got laid off the company had rules strictly prohibiting paid software from being installed from anything other than the original disc. Maybe he thought that, i dunno...
THEPANTSWEREDEAD 2 years ago
Bullshit, i have the same eeepc, you can find XP that is special made for usb flash drive and it even works in sd memory card, so you don't have to worry about buying CD drive, but there is some ways to do it for about half a price then buying external cd or dvd, but for now i will keep it for secret ; )
kucetuesi 2 years ago
woudlnt it be easier to put in a CD drive in the laptop though? why make things for USB when they can build the cd drive in the laptop no hassle
K1ll3rM4st3r 2 years ago
Because the CD drive won't fit in a chassis that small. Remember that the EeePC is a netbook, with a 10" or smaller screen. Most netbooks don't have CD drives.
OmegaM41 2 years ago
@K1ll3rM4st3r netbooks dont have a CD Drive thats y they all called netbooks
Matthew55904 1 year ago
@kucetuesi the EeePC comes with TWO CDS on is the drivers disc and the OTHER is the Windows XP OS Disc
Matthew55904 1 year ago
Did not know you were into computers check out my stuff if you want to 5/5
ComputerTechTV 2 years ago
Could've just booted from a thumb drive.
Looks like a custom heat sink in your PC Rick, i though you were a redneck!
baggedandblown 2 years ago
hey rick,do you do any gaming:D?
bigvarietyofvids 2 years ago
Rickem if you ever need to do this again, USB (Universal Serial Bus) will work perfectly all you need to do is format your USB drive with another computer and then all you need to do
bdtech 2 years ago
is toss the .ISO image for the operating system takes about 10 minutes. Once you have the poper ISO image on the Flash drive you will be fine to boot up the installation instantly upon boot up you might need to reconfigure your BIOS to make sure your accessing the correct drive.
Cheers,
Your pal Brandon. See you at the farm.
bdtech 2 years ago
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bdtech 2 years ago
who'd a thought that you were a computer geek rick
roadwolf2 2 years ago
@roadwolf2 any moron can install WIndows XP this is a common sense method u dont need to be a computer geek
Matthew55904 1 year ago
@Matthew55904 i was making a joke when i said it
roadwolf2 1 year ago
its an Asus EEE-PC Netbook...no optical drives or disk-based hard drive.its a solid state HDD(microchip).They work great till you crash the operating system.Theyre easy to restore tho...its in the startup menu.The models that came pre-installed with Linux run way better....i sell them.All the 900 models with XP get returned because they get crashed with a virus.I havent seen a Linux 900 come back ever.
netrioter 2 years ago
@netrioter exactly y u dont use windows the EeePC and ALL NETBOOKS for that matter DO NOT have the power to handle WIndows XP Windows XP need 4x what the processor of Netbooks have linux is the ONLY choice for a netbook
Matthew55904 1 year ago
lol pretty sure thats not a microsoft issued CD ya got there rick =p
seldian 2 years ago
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anytime you hook up an infected hard drive as a slave there a good chance of infecting your system, Rick you should run a virus scan just for good measure
maxell07c0 2 years ago
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maxell07c0 2 years ago
god job and tip , Rick
gretz from Poland
bastardJTD 2 years ago
what dose this fake guy god have to do with it
setilton19 2 years ago
i have never heard of Eee computers ither i have herd of E mashines
dushbag38 2 years ago
They're made by Asus.
OmegaM41 2 years ago
Awesome!
Stokeypower 2 years ago
what if the cddrive is a SATA cable
helipro555 2 years ago
he is not hi tech what if the files are infected? or he accedently puts the rong one in? then hes dead
helipro555 2 years ago
viral scans now days can be narrowed down to a folder or even a file. All rick would have had to do was place all the files he recovered into a folder and scan the folder with any halfway decent anti-virus software. Easy as pie.
dourabbawinner 2 years ago
thats cool I would have never thought of that
thepopeis1 2 years ago
Rick is a high-tech redneck. Who woulda thought? I've never even heard of Eee computers though...
perry2k12 2 years ago
you could have copied all files from your windows XP disc to an USB flash drive, put it in the USB of the Eee pc, and made it boot from the USB flash drive by configuring the BIOS. The set-up would have started and you could have installed it that way. I did it this way multiple times with windows XP, Vista and 7 ^^
Mambo181 2 years ago
yar , ez-pz
hydeph 2 years ago
Hey Rick, Great idea ya got there. You know your stuff. Another idea that i used on a similar laptop (Netbook actually) was to download Ubuntu Linux for free from their website (in ISO format) and put it on a usb stick. Then installed on the Netbook it worked fantastically and less laggy than XP. Since it was my niece's Netbook i didn't mind losing XP and teaching her how to use Ubuntu. Linux don't get viruses either so thats another advantage.
Take Care, n hope ya'll had a gr8 time last night.
marcusarelius23 2 years ago
The redneck way?!Hell Rick,I can fix anything with a hammer!Hahahaha!!
CelticGunn 2 years ago
I managed to make (and use) a bootable win xp and ubuntu on a usb drive and on a memory card, also have a "boot disk" version of the two but that is back then :P
madman1124 2 years ago
Good stuff Rick...you really dont come off as a guy whose computer savy haha...
Seriously though, clean up that rats nest of wires in your case bud, that's terrible for case flow/ventilation.
Also i dont know many people who own those old external IDE HDD bay enclosures but new ones are fairly cheap...well so is an external DVD-Rom these days...
Z28MeTaLHeAd 2 years ago
Lol, Rick I didn't know you work on computers. Good idea.
JAYGEEonYT 2 years ago
Instead of doing it ass half backwards, all you had to do was create a bootable usb drive with your Windows installation file on it. Put the usb stick in the EEee pc usb slot, turn it on and you're done. Probably didn't even have to format the harddrive and lose all the data. Just would have done a system repair, 20 minutes and problem solved. Remember that for next time "BOOTABLE USB" google that. I've done it to install O/S on netbooks, it will make your life easier.
pingu324 2 years ago 4
your an awesome friend rick... all my friends would have been like your shit of luck
6383830 2 years ago
i didnt think rednecks knew anything about computers ha ha
Kawisaki100 2 years ago
Nice job Rick. I just sold off an external USB CD/DVD ROM drive for cheap that would have worked perfectly in this situation.
TeamMixedNuts 2 years ago
Rick Mast, Canada's greatest unknown hacker the world has yet to see. Glad to see your not one of the folks thats completely lost when it comes to technology thats new in the past couple years.
MASTERSKITLEZ 2 years ago
Nice job Rick! I didn't know you worked on computers though. Lol.
mikeycomputer 2 years ago
The only way to fly! nice rig rick! keep up the god work
FMF666 2 years ago
The other, probably easier way of doing it, is taking a flash drive, making it bootable, and copying the contents of the Windows disc onto there. Then, you just boot from the flash drive and you're good to go. You only need a 1 GB flash drive for XP (since it came on CD). That's an interesting workaround you did though. Nice!
By the way, one thing you might want to do, while you're reconnecting that disc drive on your PC, is to tie some of those cables back, for better airflow in the case.
OmegaM41 2 years ago
that was a relly cool thing you did for him well done
jason2986 2 years ago
another reason why rickem is my hero
DeanLyman 2 years ago
i lke the readneack way
karnsaini 2 years ago
err
coolbros1210 2 years ago
He should sue the airport for giving him a virus
2010mustang1 2 years ago
only an american would think of that. Sue people for thier own stupidity
mykatamari 2 years ago
Rick, you can download a software tool from Microsoft to get the ISO image of a cd/dvd to boot from a pendrive..... cool that you got it done!
g0fvt 2 years ago
well my friend had a ee pc, hers was a tixing time bomb so not very good comps
brianhaack011 2 years ago
Why would you take the files off an infected HDD and put them on your computer. You could get it too if it attached itself to one of the files....
ramcrazy360 2 years ago
you restart, then go into secure mode. there you select the slave and hit format or delete.
scaleopdriver 2 years ago
If you have a decent anti-virus, you can scan the drive (when attached to the other computer) before copying the files over.
OmegaM41 2 years ago
rick buddy get a mac book trust me you wont be disappointed
Jackstock500 2 years ago
get a mac
bartmatton 2 years ago
no that would be bad
joeldude76 2 years ago
Theres going to be a lot of confused "rednecks" in the states after watching this one. Word might even get out that you and dave only play rednecks on youtube. I dont blame you guys, its good for views, I guess all the white kids in the states gave up on trying to be hood, so they flocked to the redneck scene so they could latch on and call themselves something. These people do not kno what a redneck truly is. Come on folks cant rick be computer and automobile savy? I mean he is Canadian :D
Pana69sonic 2 years ago 3
hahaha all the white people trying to be in the hood you sound so stupid
joeldude76 2 years ago
LMAO
resinator1fag 2 years ago
I actually said trying to BE HOOD, as in the act of being gangster, hard, a thug. How ever you want to say it...You know im right all these people praising a redneck lifestyle? Incest and mobile homes is more like it, you arent a redneck just because you like trucks.
Pana69sonic 2 years ago
i know im not a redneck but im not a gangster i love the woods i would hate california snow is awesome for quading not everyone is trying to be hood
joeldude76 2 years ago
one word, Ghostcast.
Haippitus 2 years ago
Acers are crap. I have one so i know :(
piuthemagicman 2 years ago
The EEE PC is made by Asus, not Acer.
Anyway, my friend, my sister, and I all have Acers that are about 2.5 years old, with no problems so far. Maybe you just had bad luck.
OmegaM41 2 years ago
Sorry :)
piuthemagicman 2 years ago
get a mac
jbell481 2 years ago
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Your rig is a fucking mess, but I guess that goes along with how you look...
BTW, people who have those types of PC's should be fully aware that re-installing can be a hassle if you don't have the right equipment, but you should know that before you guys unless you are a total moron like your friend obviously is...
DN64 2 years ago
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rednecknber 2 years ago
your a fucking jack ass DN64
dunlop020 2 years ago 2
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dunlop020, the truth can be painful at times for some people -- what's YOUR issue, I might be able to help you out also...fag.
DN64 2 years ago
Redneck genious =)
Serostern 2 years ago
mine comps have ide instead of sata
naterade21 2 years ago
cool, you can redneck PC's too. Next you need to use that redneck brain to find a way to mix the PC stuff with the other toys!
BaIdChris 2 years ago 2
I have my windows xp reload disk contents on my usb drive and can boot off that to reload, pretty easy.
Silverpup78 2 years ago
hey rick what kind of camera do you use? i like the night vision
raptor750r 2 years ago
its a sony
naterade21 2 years ago
Jesus, you REALLY are a very intelligent person rick!
BradLuvsYou 2 years ago 2
i didn't take you as computer savvy,but then i don't know shit about computers.i just know enough to get me by;great video rick.
youjgh26 2 years ago
Excellent idea of disassembling a external hard drive then connecting it to a cd drive to just get windows onto it. But if you had an extra sata cd drive couldnt u just connect that from the back of the pc? I love me eee pc. So far so good, no problems at all.
larry11453 2 years ago
nice ldc fan controler i love it get the some good thinking on the part for the laptop cool i a nice one!!
NSchunky 2 years ago
This is pretty much what I do for CD-driveless laptops/netbooks, but I already have an external DVDRW drive, so that parts sorted, it's just a pisser that you can;t use a USB stick to install windows!!! You can with Linux though I think... :)
twocvbloke 2 years ago
Rick; pick up a usb to IDE/Sata cable. Theyre around 20 bucks with the power adapter on ebay.
thehazz 2 years ago
Wanna Fix my Computer :P
mitchsfarm 2 years ago
I would have never expected you to know so much about computers that by far the most impressive video ive seen on youtube
PrestonTimmons 2 years ago
thats what i said, and it's really not that special, im 14 and know how to do it without any videos, then again his username is redneckrickem and he just "rednecked" a computer lol
suckseggs 2 years ago
ha thats quite the rig ya got there rick
dodgetrucks3500 2 years ago
great stuff good little travel cpu,s : )
Ronbocdn 2 years ago
FrankenRedNeckRickenstien!!!!! You are a genius!
edzgarage 2 years ago
Rick im impressed
AirJC23 2 years ago
Nothin can compare to windows 7
starandgoldy 2 years ago
true that
Gitrdone365 2 years ago
true
12345671412 2 years ago
I just upgraded from Vista and I'm running into compatibility issues with some programs even though Microsoft said the programs would work with 7.
crispyspa 2 years ago
Buy a Mac problem solved
tarzwell50 2 years ago 2
mac sucks
jose60674790 2 years ago
Rick you seem to know everything.
gp40mc 2 years ago
how does he like it?
I was thinking of getting it. Also I must say your a smart guy. Smart in all fields/ 5/5
Intelpentium54321 2 years ago
Ah Rick the pooter geek! My new favorite subscription. lol my external drive case looks just like that, missing the top and everything. I don't understand why people rip on netbooks because of a lack of an optical drive. They're solely built for mobile internet/office apps and 6+ hours battery, not ripping DVD's and playing games. I like my EeePC :) if I ever have to do this, im going with OSX.
Beldar4214 2 years ago
well done, my father knew how to fix a computer but now he is a logger!
stelist4life0 2 years ago
Yeah thats cool..I got my satellite hooked into my toaster so that the neighbors toilet
flushes when I open my garage door.
mx444bee 2 years ago
is that the 1000HD?
mine wont even turn on :Þ
bikekid2222 2 years ago
Another way to do it without buying an external hard drive is to make a image of the ISO and put it on the flash drive, then set the flash drive as the primary boot device and it should start the install like usual.
Totenhosen17 2 years ago 3
i cant do that with mine, i got the first eee pc model (701) and its flash based so removing the drive isnt a option ive used 4gb keys to reinstall whatever i want to put on it, it is possible to put xp onto a usb key to install it, but i cant remember the steps. i have done this, didnt have a xp licence key for it.
gmcnewlook 2 years ago
go out and buy a usb dvd drive there like 60 bucks
Rustomdaman 2 years ago 2
you are one smart guy rick!
quadder88 2 years ago
i wonder how many cig's he smoked down during this.
Good job rick
shadowstang03gt 2 years ago
or just spend the money on a laptop with an optical drive in the first place. "netbooks" are dumb.
eatpogs 2 years ago
Do you ever sleep?
rthom86 2 years ago
I've found that using network cd sharing works quite well. Did that on my Asipre One and it worked fine.
Evmoy15 2 years ago
if the computer is new enough and has XP it should have the restore stuff on a seperate partion. Ya hit a certain key sequence as it boots up and it takes ya to the restore menu. Thats how most comps come that ive seen if it dont come with a restore cd its self.
stangcrazy89 2 years ago
shoot man u are good with computers he would be up shits creek if i had to fix that
dixielandfilms 2 years ago
good work my friend
Laxmast369 2 years ago
Rick you missed your calling
Bucyruserie28W 2 years ago
i hate the fact that they have no cd drive it gets kind of annoying my sis has one
braineyboy 2 years ago
i may have to do the same thing with my girlfriends computer. By the way what is that a computer you built yourself.
pizzaisgood14 2 years ago
You can also re-install one of those things from the ethernet port by entering the bios and selecting "Boot from network". It's easier said than done because you have to have another computer set up in a certain way on the other end of the cable. Google "Preboot Execution Environment" or PXE for more informations.
lennyhome 2 years ago
2 words... thumb drive
boltster420 2 years ago
2 words... dont work
imarelebored1 2 years ago
yes,bored1 it does work and i do it quite often in my line of work google installing xp from a thumb drive...good luck
boltster420 2 years ago
so does it automaticly start like it does when you put the disc in?
cuz i dont think it will
imarelebored1 2 years ago
You boot from the flash drive. Its possible.
iVolkswagen 2 years ago
wow... now a PC buff! HAHA I LOVE IT! 5/5
tractorboy8420 2 years ago
not really Eee-pc;s fault... y not buy an external dvd drive, use once, and return?
OfficerKephart 2 years ago
Pretty sure you couldve put XP on a flash drive then booted it. Its alittle more complicated then what you did. But you if you dont have an external enclosure you could.
ketel1 2 years ago 2
now that u have a clean install, the recovery part is all gone....too bad
espogoil 2 years ago
how are you going to get the drivers on there?
BeantownBen 2 years ago
try ubuntu it works great and its free plus you can install it from a flash driver or boot from it
The85GTMustang 2 years ago
Dude.....you aren't a Redneck....you're a poser. Dude you're a f@#king computer nerd man. What's up with that dark room? You've got some kind of giant server stored in there you don't want folks seeing, so you kept the lights off so we couldn't get the scope on your equipment. That looked like something in my IT dept at work's Server Room. Some high tech sh%t. You go with your bad self Bill Gates aka Redneck Rickem.
ChuckWatson6364 2 years ago
Hello , nothing can resist to Rick exept ....... Vegemite .
Good job Rickem , i was just joking !
grosteph58 2 years ago
Never heard of an Eee PC. How do you get a virus in an airport though, sure tons of people got screwed on that one.
chicago85bearz 2 years ago
not bad. I love computers
Amd 720 BC oc 3.6
asus m3n ht deluxe
4gigs ram
1tb harddrive
750watt cosair psu
sli 9800gtx's
zalman 9700 cpu fan
apevia case 3 120mm fans
superfish7 2 years ago
lol weak,
Here is my specs
Two 2.9 GHZ Quad Core Intel Xeon "Nehalem"
16 GB of ram
4 - 1.5 TB drives
Nvidia GeForce GT120 with 1.5 GB of ram
qqstar999 2 years ago
I'm pretty sure you looked through your Tigerdirect mag to list all of your dream items off..
67Eftw 2 years ago
Nope
It's my mac pro =)
Enjoy your ricer shit faggot.
qqstar999 2 years ago
Ricer shit? You know nothing of what I have..
67Eftw 2 years ago
lol a GT120 ill put you to shame.
and my 3.6 tri core will laugh at u
superfish7 2 years ago
i dont much about computers other than i know how to use one well keep up the vids rickem
cody56108 2 years ago
I guess I shouldn't be surprised.
This guy Rickem has BRAIN Power.
Tankdriver100 2 years ago
wow, rickems a bit of a tech redneck. sweet.
BawlsNerd815 2 years ago 3
what do you do for a living?
neptunef8 2 years ago 2
btw rick you gotta clean up the cables in your pc xD
ZackMcLeish13 2 years ago
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ZackMcLeish13 2 years ago
no it doesnt i have a asus graphics card it has awesome graghix
Railbuff23 2 years ago
lol your cracked
superfish7 2 years ago
whatever asus is the best!
fanofdavidsfarm 2 years ago
is that why customer support hung up in my ear when problems occurred when my friend and i were having trouble booting his pc for the first time?
ZackMcLeish13 2 years ago
EEE PC stands for
Electronic Error Engineering Problem Computer
siemenstraffic 2 years ago 3
Man does Rick's knowledge ever end? He seems to know everything.
Never heard of an Eee PC.
redneckcountryboy0 2 years ago 5
I installed Windows 7 onto my sisters netbook (Acer Aspire) using a thumb drive and putting the files on the thumb drive make the thumb drive bootable and just installed.
OneCompHelp 2 years ago
I dont know about windows XP, but windows 7 you can install from a USB flash drive. Easier than the external cd drive thing you used
nitrosport5 2 years ago
You can do it with XP too, easy. There are specific programs made just for this, condensing a install CD down onto a bootable USB format. Works great.
SamTheSuave 2 years ago
I love my eee pc i don't have any trouble with it because mine is the Linux version though i did have to buy an external case as xandros it is installed with was crap i installed mandriva linux 2010 fast and stable, i use mine as a video player i use xp on my desktop pc which i built myself you need to tidy your wiring and cables up. the insides of my pc is very clean and tidy unlike my mind which is filthy dirty lol.
paulb4uk 2 years ago
LOL Rick you got an Eee... hahaha..
I've done the same with some Dell laptops, without the original disk, you can't reload Windows with the SATA drivers, so you have to slap the HD into a machine with an onboard SATA controller.
Edricofifrit 2 years ago
There is a much easier way to re-load windows on one of those or any pc by useing imaging software. you make an image of your entire pc set up (drives drivers settings etc) which is like a back up and if your system fails you can just run the backup utility directly from your external hard drive or even an external USB thumb drive and re-image the pc in a few minutes. everything will be exaclty the same as before same partitions same settings everything.
mja19870000000000 2 years ago
hey rick just to clarify, that was the back up copy of your legit XP disc (which your legally alllowed to make) wasnt it???????? ROFL!!!!!!
scoob316 2 years ago 2
wow you actually built your own rig...awsome iv never bought a prebuilt system
gravediggmn 2 years ago
so you're saying that your CD drive is a nigger? lmao jkjk
cmanleyspy 2 years ago 3
smart man!
BigAssProject 2 years ago
If you have an extra thumb drive you can use that as an XP disc. Just google it and there is directions on how to do it.
corruptcorey 2 years ago
i got that shit one time and it was not nice
67tr876 2 years ago
I use a tool called "win to flash" and boot windows off a usb key and install from there. Not sure if it would of worked in your case tho.
MajinFrahma 2 years ago
smart man but you can also rent a cd player lol
TwinsTec101 2 years ago
great job rick, ur a smart guy, but i would run scans on ur computer since u transfered files from the infected one but good idea!!
nickdigg5 2 years ago
nice! loooks like rickem knows his shit!
eltatertoto 2 years ago
you guys aren't rednecks..... your just canadian.
Toadphillips 2 years ago
i would have never thought of that lol ur party smart rick (for a redneck) lol jk
MrFlintnSteel 2 years ago 2