Installing Windows 7 on Eee PC

In this video, I demonstrate how to configure the BIOS of an Asus Eee PC 1005HA to boot off of a bootable flash drive containing Windows 7.

I have successfully installed Windows 7 Professional x86 (32-bit version) from a bootable flash drive.

To make a bootable USB drive with Windows 7 on it, I followed the instructions from this blog:
http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345
Credit for this process goes to this author.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Windows
• bootable
• flash
• drive
• Asus
• Eee
• PC
• 1005HA

[grey0powerlessnesss]

Better to use mini-DVDs (much cheaper, smaller, permanent) than costly, large flash storage. Boot/ install from USB CD/ DVD/ BLURAY drive. USB R-W BLURAY is ~$(US)100 on eBay, from Taiwan.

Medically Retired IT Consultant (ABI, TBI),

Australian Capital Territory

[WeArePurpose]

@grey0powerlessnesss Thanks for the input and suggestion! Actually, the reason I choose a USB installation option when it's available is because it's non-permanent. My $10 USB drive has loaded over 5 OS's wonderfully for me :)

For reliability, though, I too would choose an external CD/DVD/BLURAY drive. Thanks for the eBay plug, too! I'll check it out.

Nice triple boot setup! I don't use this netbook anymore, but it is always reliable. Close to same hardware -- my HDD is 160GB, I believe.

[diegodiniz]

IM trying to install but I only have 4GB space..when I try to install i get the message that 5,5GB required and the NEXT button is disabled. What can I do ???

[WeArePurpose]

@diegodiniz I'm assuming that your "4GB space" is talking about free space on your COMPUTER'S hard drive if you've already made it to the installation process. This is a trickier problem to solve.

Clearing up space on your hard drive can be accomplished old-school style by "defragmenting". A Google search will tell you more about that. Also, you can delete large, unwanted files from your drive and then defragment. Other techniques exist (Gparted, etc.) but they are much more complicated.

[see4el9]

how come you installed in on you pc first, then had to boot off of you usb, and im on eee pc now and i want to upgrade to windows 7. if i did, will i still have the drivers for the built in wif and stuff like that?

[WeArePurpose]

@see4el9 I do all of my work on my desktop. When I booted off of the USB drive, that was on the netbook. I boot straight from the internal hard drive on my desktop.

It's been a while since I installed Windows 7 on the EeePC, but as far as I remember, the main drivers (including wifi) are installed, and the remaining drivers are then installed through Windows Update. You can download drivers from Asus for the special function keys on the netbook.

[keigger1]

thank you !! you are the man!! I was going thru the removable drive nightmare till I found your tutorial, working fine now!

[DukeOfRecica]

Just download and install free software " Virtual Clonedrive " it will read your iso file just as it's a dvd drive, very cool and simple.

[astrolabia106]

I don't have a boot-screen... when i switch it on, it goes straight from a blank screen to the "Starting windows..." loading screen.... any help? ikeep preesing f2 throughout it but nothing happens....

[gmaximosis]

quick point for all, i found that unless i remove the USB at the point of restart after files have loaded,it will keep going around in circles reloading operating sytem

[gmaximosis]

well done buddy , only tried once when went the 'removable' option and ofcourse to no avail,but yeah before going $%^$%# i have learbt to sniff a solution on the net and this explained it, saved me further exploration - :-)

[dxmlsd]

Can I Instal windows 7 on the hard drive from the Eee pc 1001px from another computer then put it back in the Eee pc 1001px and let it run all the updates please let me know

[851090211]

Thank you so much, it worked great!

[legendary10101]

I Just wanted to Thank you so very much,I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate on my wife's PC following your instructions...I was having the same frustration at first but you totally shed some light into it for me.Thank you

[thefifty60]

thanks man saved my life 2 minutes b4 fully flipping