Help Reformatting Netbook [SOLVED]
November 27th, 2013
I need to repair a friends Netbook and he bought the netbook for cheap, £20 for a £300+ Netbook offered to him, it was an answer to say no to. So yeah, I just loaded the computer and wanted to reformat the computer to either XP or Windows 7, but there is no CD drive. The computer boots up into Ubuntu and the OS of the computer is originally Windows XP because of the stickers. Yeah, so there is one main admin account, but it seems there is a password lock.
So then, I tried to reformat by making a USB stick to make sure it’s FAT32 and place a Windows XP .iso file, so that the Netbook can boot into Windows XP. There is a problem, in the priority settings I cannot see a list to boot priority first USB. Only removable device, but there is a SD card in there, CD drive, but there is no CD drive? And hard disk drive which I don’t want..
So every time I try to spam the F9 key to boot into Windows, I can’t. The computer goes into the boot loader of Ubuntu. I think Ubuntu wiped over the Windows boot loader so it doesn’t let me factory reset the laptop with just a button.
I’ve been doing reformatting for a long time ago now, but I can’t seem to figure this out. This is my first time reformatting from a USB though lol. Much help will be appreciated and I hope you like what you read. It’s more of a story I’m writing it out high..
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I forgot to tell you it’s a Asus Eee PC M1001HA.
OperationWarez replied: Hi all,
I need to repair a friends Netbook and he bought the netbook for cheap, £20 for a £300+ Netbook offered to him, it was an answer to say no to. So yeah, I just loaded the computer and wanted to reformat the computer to either XP or Windows 7, but there is no CD drive. The computer boots up into Ubuntu and the OS of the computer is originally Windows XP because of the stickers. Yeah, so there is one main admin account, but it seems there is a password lock.
So then, I tried to reformat by making a USB stick to make sure it's FAT32 and place a Windows XP .iso file, so that the Netbook can boot into Windows XP. There is a problem, in the priority settings I cannot see a list to boot priority first USB. Only removable device, but there is a SD card in there, CD drive, but there is no CD drive? And hard disk drive which I don't want..
So every time I try to spam the F9 key to boot into Windows, I can't. The computer goes into the boot loader of Ubuntu. I think Ubuntu wiped over the Windows boot loader so it doesn't let me factory reset the laptop with just a button.
I've been doing reformatting for a long time ago now, but I can't seem to figure this out. This is my first time reformatting from a USB though lol. Much help will be appreciated and I hope you like what you read. It's more of a story I'm writing it out high..
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Maybe you could give it back to the person from whom it was stolen?
? You steal every day.
Pirating.
OperationWarez replied: ? You steal every day.
Pirating.
Copying a file =/= stealing tangible goods.
You can’t just put an .iso on a flash drive and expect it to boot.
I can’t be asked to get into an argument with you. I don’t care.
Thanks sir, you’re very helpful.
I didn’t ask you to get into an argument. I can see why you’d want to avoid one though–you clearly have no point.
Google this: “boot Windows XP from USB”. Enjoy going through the 36 million results. Surely one of them will yield some information.
Can you be asked to do that?
It may not be stolen, it might have been an addict selling his own Netbook to get drugs, or many other possibilities ?
As prozac4312 pointed out, you can install from USB flash drive if you have made it bootable, there are quite a few apps to do this just search this section of the board, there are many posts on the topic.
Your friend can always invest in something like a Zipad (like a docking station), with a slimline SATA optical drive and/or additional 2.5″ HDD inside it, or if you have an old internal optical drive, use a SATA/IDE to USB cable (you can get for about £2)
Yeah, worked like a charm. Thanks a lot guys, especially you prozac4312! No U!!!
I spent hours formatting, flashing the USB drive, bios configuration and installing Windows. Did a all nighter.
I haven’t slept yet, its 8am here..
All night ???
It only takes an hour tops to do, lolz
I’m serious. Took forever to reformat hard drive and install Windows and update it and shiz.
Took me hours researching as well. I ran into soo many problems I couldn’t believe it.
oh well – you are sorted now I take it ? If so, can you please edit the topic title to include [solved] thanks
Yes, sir.