USB Boot Install Windows Vista Asus Eee PC

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Just to prove that it can be done, Ive installed a copy of Windows Vista Home Premium on the little Asus EEE PC 900. The specs are as follows: 900Mhz Celeron Mobile 1GB Ram 20GB Flash Hard drive The HDD is made up of a 4GB + 16GB module. The OS is installed on the 16GB module.

USB Boot Install Windows Vista Asus Eee PC 900

Its a little slow as expected but for music, DVDs, photos, MS Office and the Internet its fine. It wont do high end PC tasks but that is to be expected. The machine will run TV tuners, synchronise with devices with Windows drivers such as PDAs, cell phones, ipods, web cams, etc that the Linux based machine may not. Since I had to buy a copy of Windows anyway and Vista and Xp were the same price, I decided to opt of Vista for this machine.

USB Boot Install Windows XP Asus Eee PC

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This tutorial was tested on Asus Eee PC using one (1) USB 4GB flash drive, also take note that this is not exclusive for Asus Eee PC only. All netbook and lappy that has USB port and capable booting on USB will also work even desktop PC.

USB Boot Install Windows XP Asus Eee PC
Installing Windows XP on the Asus Eee PC using a single USB flash drive.
To complete this tutorial you need a 32bit version of windows XP  or windows Vista installed on your desktop PC in order to be able to create a successful windows XP  USB bootable flash drive. What you'll need: