Friday, March 26, 2010

Acer Aspire One Windows 7 (boot time, install time, bold etc)

This is an Acer aspireone AOA150-Aw loaded with Windows 7 Ultimate Edition which is available to download from Microsoft. As you can see, it is quite fast for a small, agile computer and has no problems keeping up with Window's large footprint. I will put the Windows Rating in the description in the next couple of days. I installed Windows 7 using a Flash Voyager 4Gb formatted with FAT32. NTFS also works as most tutorials on the web insist on using NTFS. Let me point out that I am using the 120GB Hard Disk Drive version... NOT THE SSD. I am not sure whether Windows 7 offers FAT32 and therefore cannot give SSD users any real recommendations i'm afraid. Here is how I did it on Windows XP. 1. Firstly, navigate to www.ezbsystems.com and download the free trial of ultraiso, then install it. 2. Using ultraiso, open the .ISO of Windows 7. The latest being 7100.0.090421-1700_x86fre_client_en-us_retail_ultimate-grc1culfrer_en_dvd.iso. 3. Click Bootable at the top and click Write Disk Image. 4. Select your preferred USB device. Leave the Write Method as USB-HDD+. 5 (optional). If you have not already done so, format the drive (bottom left of the Write Disk window) using whichever method you prefer. FAT32 and NTFS both seem to work. 6. Click Write. Be prepared to wait a while. Once it has finished, you now have a bootable drive. This can be used to boot into Windows 7 Ultimate install by any machine which has USB boot. It can also be used to perform upgrades from Windows XP/Vista ...

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