Windows 7 on eee pc?

I'm thinking about installing windows 7 ultimate version on my eee pc, this will replace xp sp3. The specs of my asus eee pc 1005ha are in my sig. Will windows 7 run as smooth as xp if not faster? I love windows 7 on my main laptop but I am wondering if the netbook will be able to run windows 7 ultimate at 100%.

 

it's atom based right? win7 should run fine on it

 

It will be fine, you may even be able to run Aero on it.

 

I ran 7 on my EEE 901 when it was in beta/RC and it ran fine, your 1005HA will have no problems.

 

awesome. now i have something to do this week besides boring school, thanks guys

 

I have another question,

Right now I'm dual booting windows xp and linux mint 8, love linux mint 8 but it's just not meant for the eee pc as it sucks battery life really fast, twice as fast as windows. So anyway I have my HD partitioned into multiple parts including a ext4 FS for linux. When I am installing windows 7 on my eee pc, will it format my whole HD so that W7 is the only thing on there? Ut it be able to detect the ext4 partition?

One last question, whats the battery life compared to xp sp3

 

The different partitions will be seen as separate, just like separate drives. When you select what partition to install it on, it will format that partition only.

 

You can select what partition to use, as well as resize it, delete other partitions, etc. during the installation process.

Windows 7 Home Premium is running perfectly so far on my Eee PC 1201N, although it's a slightly higher-caliber machine.

 

ok great, but still remains the question regarding battery life. How is it different from XP? I have been reading it's about an hour worse on then eee pc series which will be a problem as I can't have that. maybe a 20-25 min drop but not an hour.

may stick with xp after all *sigh*

 

Battery life should be about the same.

 

I wish it were so, but I am reading so many reviews online saying that it is not

 

I also read lots about the problems with the testing methodology in those reviews.

EDIT: It does seem that most users are reporting about an hour or so less using Windows 7.

 

A bit sad that a 10 year old operating system still triumphs it's successors in almost every way, all eye candy aside. Faster start-up and more battery life stick out the most. Microsoft really needs to step it's game up if it wants windows 7 to replace xp......

I'm a bit disappointed now, don't think I will replace xp with windows 7 as that extra hour is needed....
:'(

 

Damn't I don't really care. I have 2 gigs of RAM in the system, I have the recovery partition I can use if I need to. I am tired of XP on my little netbook, my brother got a netbook for Christmas with XP on it and there is something about his thats a bit more snappier then mine (mine has 2 gb ram his has 1, I defraged and everything except I always seem to get the sluggish responsiveness especially when dealing with windows explorer and he doesn't, If I feel windows 7 has fixed this then I will be happy.

When I am installing windows 7 I want to install it on my C: drive however can I format my D: drive also back to ntfs (It has linux mint 8 on it now and it is an extended partition) I just want windows on it. But can I also keep the XP recovery partitions as I don't have a cd drive if I need to recover.

I have been hearing so many mixed reviews with the battery life I am not sure what to think anymore so I'm going to try it myself

also will installing windows 7 remove the grub bootloader?

 

Installing Win 7 will remove not only the grub bootloader, but also effectively disable the XP recovery partition too (if the grub bootloader/linux mint 8 didn't disable it already).

What I would suggest is use a new/different HD to test this with and don't 'automatically' activate Windows. When you're satisfied with your testing, then install it for real knowing what you're getting yourself into.

If everything goes south and you can't get it working at all (or at least not to your satisfaction); you simply have to put in your working HD and not lose anymore time with these test runs.

Good luck.

 

I got an extra hour of battery life using windows 7 on my windows 7 netbook. it has full aero enabled and everything else. Also, consider using eboostr as it helps increase the system reponsiveness dramatically. The GUI is much more smoother than windows xp because it's offloaded to the GPU thus windows 7 will appear to run much much faster than windows xp.

 

what do you mean by "disable" it? It won't overwrite it I will make sure of that.

 

The recovery partition is accessed by specific MBR entries which get modified when you install a different operating system on the HD.

Even if you don't 'overwrite' it, you won't be able to access it (easily) if the MBR entries don't match what the BIOS is expecting as 'hooks'.

Easier to just try this on a different HD and have your current one as backup until you are sure you'll never go back/need it again.

 

not for me. the easiest way would be to do it, then if I don't like it (highly unlikely unless I am funding I never have enough battery life) then I can figure out a way to put windows xp on a flash drive (I think there is always a way to)

I really don't have an extra HD to spare and taking the the HD out of a eee pc is a pain in the

EDIT: installed and activated, wouldn't let me format teh linux drive so I still have to do that after I get windows 7 up and running. Might as well delete the rest of the partitions also because apparently as you say they are useless. but thats for another day. Now after I install these windows updates the quest for drivers begins.

How do I see which drivers I need from the computer (It's been awhile since I did this last)
And I guess I download the drivers from asus: http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx ?

 

Go to the link you posted above and put in your model, click search and enter Windows 7 as your O/S. The drivers will be listed there.

I would start with the BIOS, the Chipset, the Video and Audio then the Network drivers in that order.

Good luck.

 

i"ve been using win7pro on my 1005ha since oct

batt life is better than xpsp3 PROVIDED you update your bios to the latest
then use the updated SHE, hotkey and ACPI chipset drivers.

 

so I should update my bios to 1301? do I just download the file and click it? will it intefere with my old bios or just update it for me?

USB Device Found.
Reading file "1005HA.ROM"
File "1005HA.ROM" not found on USB device!

thats the error I get when trying to update bios pls help me

 

Ok now I'm trying it with a smaller usb drive and and it gets to

USB Device found.
Reading file "1005HA.ROM"_

It has been at that step for the last 10 minutes, I don't know what to do. Can I power down the system or not?

 

Are there any reviews/benchmarks of xp vs 7 for performance with netbooks? All I can find is just battery life tests.

 

Ok I got Windows 7 ultimate installed and everything good earlier today. It runs pretty well. I have been playing some games and internet surfing all day from a full charge off and on and it still has 40 percent battery life, it can run aero but I just turned it off to get a little more battery life. My boot time start up is literally 45 seconds. It feels much "snappier" then XP. the absolutely only thing I don't like is this part: IN xp I could move my finger down the far right side of the mousepad and the page would scroll down, I can't do that in w7 and don't know how to enable it. But other than that it is perfect. The battery life is about the same maybe a bit less or a bit better. In order to get the this battery life you must install new bios (not 1301 the one before that).