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Installing Win 7 to SD card (EEE 901) via USB Pendrive
I have tried posting over at the eee forums but i have not had much luck so far so i thought i would try here.
I have searched on this forum and see some discussion about this. I have a reasonable amount of basic computing knowledge but to be honest most of the more technical stuff i am seeing discussed is probably beyond me.
I was hoping i could post here in the hopes that someone could explain the steps available to me as clearly and simply as possible, many thanks.
Anyway, to my post i originally made over on the eee forums:
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I have a 901/Xp (4gb/8gb), After hearing you can install the OS of your choice onto a SDHC card and boot from it i decided that installing the Win 7 RC would be nice to have as my main OS.
As i purchased the XP model last year i don't have enough disk space on the slower SSD to install it so i went and purchased a very fast and rather expensive Sandisk Extreme III 30mb/s 16gb SDHC card to have as my new main boot drive for Win 7. The card seems to working fine and i have formatted it to NTFS.
I was then able to successfully complete a guide to allow me to boot from my 16gb USB pendrive which i had copied the Win 7 disc contents too. I arranged the boot priority to boot from the pendrive and all went well until i got to the drive installation screen, for some reason Win 7 does not see the SDHC card and thus i cannot it install to that location, it sees the hard disks fine but no SD card.
Strangely it also does not see the USB pendrive either even though i booted from it just fine, could someone point me in the right direction as how to get the Win 7 install to see my SD card so i can install to it?
SamHandwich
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That was my full post. Just to add, to be clear, i can boot Win 7 fine off my 16gb USB pendrive with the intention of installing it onto my 16gb SDHC card it just does not see it when i get to the installation.
I see many people wanting to install OS files to an SD card but then to use that to install to a SSD or hard disk, i see very little about installing the OS onto the SD card itself.
I guess because most class 6 cards are quite slow which is why i got this high speed 30mb/s card, which hopefully will actually be faster overall than my 4gb SSD drive.
I see some mention of an Hitachi Microdrive driver to turn a removeable drive into a fixed drive but the one i found seems to be for XP only and when i tried to load the driver at the Win 7 install prompt nothing happened.
I am beginning to see that i really should have just bought that EEE 1000 HE i had my eye on, good old hindsight.