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    asus eee 1215n

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by mchen87, Oct 30, 2010.

  1. mchen87

    mchen87 Newbie

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    I just purchased an Asus 1215n eee and have a simple question. This is my first netbook and first piece of hardware without an optical drive. I would like to install a fresh copy of windows 7 simply because I find it to always run better when you get rid of all those annoying programs it comes pre-installed with. does anyone know how id go about doing this? there is no recovery partition present on the pc.

    thanks in advance!
     
    mchen87, Oct 30, 2010
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  2. Brawn

    Brawn The Awesome

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    usb optical drive
     
    Brawn, Oct 30, 2010
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  3. Texanman

    Texanman Master of all things Cake

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    A better choice would to use a flash drive since obviously its his first pc to be without a cd drive... A google search will show you the way
     
    Texanman, Oct 30, 2010
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    MDR8850 Notebook Evangelist

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    download n to flash
    download a win 7 copy of your choice
    get a 4gb usb drive
    make a usb bootable win7 using ntoflash
     
    MDR8850, Oct 31, 2010
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  5. Gkomega

    Gkomega Notebook Enthusiast

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    use this link to download the super easy to use windows tool. You do need an Windows 7 ISO and a 4 GB usb stick. How To Create Bootable Windows 7 USB To Install Windows 7 From USB Flash Drive (Using Windows 7 DVD/USB Tool)

    But there are some downsides to a new install. I had almost 4 hours wasted when I installed the 2 new GPU drivers. The intel GPU only wanted to go to max 1152x720 pixels. While 1366x768 is the standard. Im now using some older drivers to not have this problem.

    GL with the install.
     
    Gkomega, Oct 31, 2010
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  6. chinoquezada

    chinoquezada Notebook Enthusiast

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    i just bought a 1215n as well.

    I would have gone thru the hassle of reinstalling windows but, to be honest, the bloatware isnt hard to remove and, once its gone, the netbook runs like a charm
     
    chinoquezada, Oct 31, 2010
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