When I first got my Asus Eee 900HA, I thought about installing Windows Vista on it, but after doing some research, it turned out the performance was less than stellar, as you might imagine. Then the Windows 7 Beta was released, and I found several articles where people had installed it on their netbooks, and were very happy with the results. From the sound of it, Microsoft is getting Windows 7 right where Vista went wrong. So I downloaded the Windows 7 Beta and decided to install it.
That’s where it got tricky. Netbooks don’t have an internal DVD drive, so the only way to install it is from a USB flash drive or USB hard drive. The Windows 7 Beta is well over 2 GB, but the biggest USB drive I had lying around was only 1 GB, so that wasn’t an option. I have an old 200 GB USB hard drive though, so I dusted it off and went to work. Unfortunately though, this was the most difficult part of the entire installation. For some reason, I had a nothing but trouble trying to get my netbook to boot from the USB drive. It took a few hours, and I had to try countless methods from various Google searches, but in the end, here are the steps that worked for me.
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