New Windows 7 on Acer Aspire One

Hey I just thought I'd let everyone know that the new Windows 7 beta is out for testing, and available for 150 day trial at www.microsoft.com/windows7
I extracted the .iso to a folder on my Acer Aspire One, and ran the setup. It create a Windows.old folder for all my old stuff and did a clean install (meaning you'll be starting fresh, so back up your stuff). Once up and running, just needed to update the wireless driver, and everything else was good to go... Works like a charm, and with an added SD Memory card for "Ready Boost" the laptop really screams, this definately aint Vista... anyhow just thought I would share my success with it so far.

 

Just curious how you were able to install Windows 7 from a .iso on your hard drive. Did you burn it first to a DVD?

 

Maybe he used Daemon Tools. It's a free program that can set up 1-4 virtual optical drives.
You right click the icon in the system tray, click on one of the virtual drives and then you can choose whichever *.iso file you want.

 

You can't install over windows XP with a disk mounted in daemon tools.. :roll:

What I did is pop a DVD drive in my IDE HDD case, and install from that. Worked a charm, and runs fairly nice.

 

Oh, I thought you're double booting! Windows XP and Windows 7...
Formatting another partition and copying files from it could be possible...

 

Use a USB key:
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I used the above method when installing the beta on my desktop system because I was out of DVDR discs So I can confirm it works. Going to stick with TinyXP on my AAO, though. Not enough RAM and not nearly enough storage space for Windows7.

 

I've recently had trouble with Daemon Tools doing bad stuff to my computer.
I recommend Alcohol 52%. It's free and I've never had any trouble with it.
But that's just me

 

Were you using a copy of Daemon tools pro that's downloaded from some torrent site? It has been reported that some Daemon tools pro on major torrent sites contain a small torjan.

 

Hi All!

Here is a simple way to install Win7:
I downloaded the beta 7000 iso. I unzipped the iso to my HDD with Total Commander. Simply ran the setup.exe, and everything went fine. Now I have XP and Win7 on two different partition (of course, first i created an unformatted place on the HDD with Partition magic). That's all. Everything works fine...the right card reader too. The device manager said, this is an unknown device, but when I plugged in a SD-card, the driver installed, and now it works fine too. I did it on last weekend, and since then I use the Win7 as my primary OS with no problems...Grrrreeeaat! Now I have all my apps installed (A1ctl is also OK), and the AAO working like a charm.

 

Another option is to split your XP partition and install in the new partition.

I created a bootable Windows 7 USB setup disk and used that to install to my second partition (actually third if you count the restore partition)

The Win7 install automatically added the entries for WinXP and my WUBI Ubuntu install so I can triple boot.

 

What is this "Ready Boost" from your SD card reader? Did you just load Win 7 on an SD card?

 

I was able to repartition my 160G drive (using Gparted), install Win7, grab driver updates listed in the 'Windows 7 Drivers' thread here, install and am running (almost) with a hitch. One BSOD, during which I was selecting some text to copy using a wireless USB mouse. :?:

Seems to run very smoothly on the AAO, much better than I would have expected. I haven't tried stressing the system yet, but I'll start installing apps and see how things go.

 

My 160 gb drive was already split into 2 partitions with XP on one and Vista Home Premium on the other. I resized the existing partitions to be each about 48 gb or one third of the drive's capacity each. In the remaining unused space I did a clean install of Windows 7. Most of the drivers were already here on the memory stick I used for the Vista install a few months ago. The remainder were easily found on the internet. So far I like Win 7 on the Aspire. It's fast and hasn't hicupped.