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While the POST screen is showing tap the ESC key.

Make sure all of your files are backed up.

So running compact is not neccesary if you do not want to. The end installation will leave you with around 1GB of free space on the OS SSD. Fortunately, most eee PC users have a 8GB OS drive and another drive for files. A lot of guides will tell you you have to run compact on the drive. The installation is actually remarkably straight forward. Copy the entire contents of the Windows 7 disk to the flash drive.

Now your flash drive is prepared for the Windows 7 files.

Bow run “bootsect /nt60 driveletterhere” wheras driveletterhere is the drive letter of your flash drive.

Type the drive letter of the drive i.e.

Once you have the image loaded in one way or another we’re going to run a file on the disk. Either burn the image to a disk or use a ISO mounting tool to mount the disk image.

We now need to insert or mount the Windows 7 drive.

You should now be back at command prompt.

Finally type “assign” to have windows assign the drive a mount point.

You can also add “quick” after NTFS to perform a quick format.

Next we will format the drive with the command “FORMAT fs=ntfs” you could also use FAT32 but I prefer NTFS.

Then type “active”, this will mark the partition bootable.

Now type “create partition primary”, which will create a new partition.

Type “clean” to wipe the partition table.

Now run select disk # where # is the number associated with your flash drive.

Next run the “list disk” command to get a view of the available devices connected to the machine.

At command prompt open diskpart (type diskpart then press enter).

I would recommend a 4GB drive, as the Windows DVD ISO is 2.35GBįirst we’re going to open up diskpart to prepare the Flash Disk. The N270 ATOM processor does not support x86_64 (amd64) extensions, so you’re going to want to grab the 32bit version.

Your Free for One Year Windows 7 Key and Release Client DVD-ISO can be downloaded from here: This guide will tell you how to acquire Windows 7, prepare a flash drive to install Windows 7, and to acquire the necessary drivers after installation is finished. I figured this would be a good time to make a guide specifically for you in the same situation as I was. I saw a few incomplete guides out there, including the one that I used to install Windows 7 on my eee PC 1000.