RECOMMENDED: A recent study by the NDP Group reveals that a whopping 1.76 million Chromebook units have been sold in just ten months. The study also reports that Chromebook accounts for the 26 percent of all notebook sales in 2014. As most of you know, Google has been updating its Chrome operating system with new features ever since its first release but it’s not even remotely close to Windows, Mac or even some Linux distributions. A lot of computer users who have used Windows or Mac before making the jump to Chrome OS or Chromebooks agree that it can’t be used as a replacement to PC or Mac for now.
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Because of this, majority of Chromebook or Chromebox users want to install Windows or Linux on their Chromebooks. Since most of the Chromebooks out there ship with powerful processors, they meet the minimum hardware requirements for installing Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7. For instance, Google’s own Chromebook Pixel features an i5 processor, 4GB of RAM, 32 or 64 GB SSD. A quick search on the web reveals that there are plenty of guides available to load Linux on Chromebooks but there are very few guides that can help you install Windows operating system on Chromebook or Chromebox. The good news is that there are a couple of good and working guides out there to install Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7 on popular Chromebooks such Google’s own Chromebook Pixel and Acer A7. Installing Windows on a Chromebook isn’t a straight-forward job, but there are guides and video tutorials to help you install Windows on Chromebook. Install Windows 10 on Chromebook with ease It turns out that installing Windows on Chromebook Pixel is relatively easier when compared to other models.
Dave has uploaded the following video to YouTube explaining the instructions you need to follow in order to install Windows 10 on a Chromebook. As per the above video, installing Windows 10 on Chromebook is fairly easy and should be able to install in less than an hour. Install Windows 8.1 or Windows 7 on Chromebook Chromebook Pixel users can follow the simple instructions on to successfully install Windows 8/8.1 on Pixel and then install necessary drivers. A video guide has been uploaded on YouTube by Johnny Phung showing steps you need to follow in order to install Windows 7 on Acer C7 Chromebook.
Watch the below video guide to install Windows on Acer C7 Chromebook.
RECOMMENDED: The much awaited Windows 7 RC has come out with added features such as the Windows XP Mode (XPM). Though Windows 7 Beta was very stable for primary use, many users hesitated to install it. But with Windows 7 RC, you can now install Windows 7 on your primary machines including Netbooks. Installing Windows 7 on a Netbook isn’t as easy as installing on Laptops or desktops that come with in-built DVD drive. Since we can’t use DVD media to install on Netbook, we need to use an USB (Pen drive or Flash drive) to make it happen. Has already covered how to install Windows 7 from USB/Pen drive in the past.
This guide is exclusively for Acer Aspire One Netbook users, who like to install the brand new Windows 7 on their Acer Aspire One. Windows 7 DVD or ISO 2. A USB Drive with 2.5+ GB (4GB) 3. Windows Vista or windows 7 running machine to create bootable USB stick. Lastly, your Acer Aspire One with 100% charged battery or connected to power supply.
Procedure: Installing Windows 7 on Acer Aspire One (Netbook) 1. We need to create a bootable USB stick of Windows 7 first. To make it happen insert your USB stick and then copy or move all your contents (if any) to a drive. Next, open Command Prompt with admin rights.
You can use either of the given methods below to open Command Prompt with admin rights (also known as elevated command prompt).Type cmd in Start menu search box and hit Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter. Or.Go to Start menu All programs Accessories, right click on Command Prompt and select Run as administrator. Free wiley cpa reviewer. You need to know about the USB drive a little bit. Type in the following commands in the command prompt: First type DISKPART and hit enter to see the below message. Next type LIST DISK command and note down the Disk number (ex: Disk 1) of your USB flash drive.
In the below screenshot my Flash Drive Disk no is Disk 1. Next type all the below commands one by one.
Here I assume that your disk drive no is “ Disk 1”.If you have Disk 2 as your USB flash drive then use Disk 2.Refer the above step to confirm it. So below are the commands you need to type and execute one by one: SELECT DISK 1 CLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS (Format process may take few seconds) ASSIGN EXIT Don’t close the command prompt as we need to execute one more command at the next step. Just minimize it. Next insert your Windows7 DVD into the optical drive and check the drive letter of the DVD drive (Double-click computer icon to know).
In this guide I will assume that your DVD drive letter is “D” and USB drive letter is “H” (open my computer to know about it). In case, if you don’t have Windows 7 DVD and have just ISO, you need to use a free software named. Download Virtual Clone Drive, then use the Virtual Drive letter as you DVD drive letter after mounting the Windows 7 DVD image. You can also your WinRAR software to extract the Windows 7 ISO file to desktop. Maximize the minimized Command Prompt in the 4th step.Type the following command now: D:CD BOOT and hit enter.Where “D” is your DVD drive letter. CD BOOT and hit enter to see the below message.
Type another command given below to update the USB drive with BOOTMGR compatible code. BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 H: Where “H” is your USB drive letter. Once you enter the above command you will see the below message. Copy all the Windows 7 DVD contents to the USB flash drive.
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So, now you have bootable Windows 7 USB drive. Reboot your Acer Aspire One Netbook and then, press F12 key to enter the BIOS.
Select USB drive as bootable drive and hit enter. Your should begin now. Installing Windows 7 is very easy, very similar to installing Vista. Just follow the onscreen procedure to finish the installation process.
For those of you bashing the ZGF, I 100% agreed until yesterday when I was given an OCZ SSD. I threw that in and installed Win7, it’s running legitimately 10x faster than it was with a spinning drive on WinXP. I’ll be throwing a 1GB stick of RAM in it, at $5, there’s no reason not to. Then I’ll be adding an a/b/g/n WiFi adapter for the grand sum of $4.20. Honestly I’m happy with it with just the SSD. The difference is INCREDIBLE.
Once I up the RAM and add the better WiFi card, it should be pretty nice. In all honesty, I’d say it’s comparable to my Samsung with i3, 8GB Crucial, and 7200 spinning disc. The SSD sure makes a SERIOUS difference. My advice, if you’re unhappy with the performance of your ZG5, I highly suggest dropping the roughly $50 on an SSD. I will be using this a LOT more.
Especially after I add theRAM and WiFi card. I’ve also seen articles about putting a touchscreen screen into the ZG5. If I figure out how to do it and where to get one though, I do intend on giving it a shot. Would be a great little touchscreen Netbook at that point. My only wish was that I could swap out the board on the right with the USBs to have USB 3.0.
Rob says. I was given an Acer Aspire One, it has Windows 7 on it. I will admit that I’ve never used this system before, only XP. It says it has intel Atom inside, energy star,ultra thin,10.1 LED,WIFI certified,Processor450(1.66GHz,512KB Cache). It has 1GBMemory and 160TH HDD of storage. I got it and it seems to have all types of problems. It freezes immediately.
As soon as I turn it on it freezes. I can’t access the internet. The previous owner said she restored the system before giving it to me. It shows over 1,000 things wrong and in need of updating. It also asks for a verifacation key or some type of key code I think you would have received sheen you purchased or signed up. It needs virus protection but I can’t get it to let me on the internet because it freezes and stays that way.
I wanted to do a factory reset but I don’t have a computer or a Windows 7 disk. I know this netbook has been reset numerous times.I would love to fix it and update the system. I actually paid for Backup and I can’t do anything with it until I can get it fixed. I Guess it’s time for me to ask what can I do to fix all the problems? Is there anyway I can do a factory reset without the Windows disk or without using a flash drive?
I think that there might be too many prob. Berenise says. Hi, i dont really know what im doing here, this is the first thing of this kind i have tried. Firstly, because I was using xp i had to use mbr wizard to make the drive bootable.
When i was trying to make the usb drive ‘active’, it would be confirmed but when i checked again using mbrwiz/list it would still say it wasnt active. My aspire one is running on linpus linux atm, when i select to boot from the usb stick, it appears to boot normally and no sign of it wanting to install. I can access the data on the usb stick but the ‘setup’ icon is an executable file. Have i just got the wrong iso? What is going wrong?
Thanks in advance for your help, will. Lara says. Thought I would add my two centsok here’s the deal I have tried EVERYTHING to boot my Acer Aspire One Netbook KAV10 from USB. I was booting from Windows xp so the “diskpart” method would not work. I even did some methods using MBRWizard and still my Acer would not detect my USB upon rebootI eventually screwed up my USB and had to restore it through a ubuntu Terminal!
SO here is my solution that WORKED.this is for all those who were in my position trying to figure this out for days. First I Downloaded my Windows.ISO and found a ISO program called UltraISO.
Attach your USB to your computer 3. Load your ISO image into UltraISO via the “File–Open–Your Windows ISO” 4.
Click on the “Bootable” drop down menu and select “Write Image File.” 5. Make sure its writing to the drive which your USB is connected to 6. This will essentially “burn” the ISO to your USB stick the same way it would to a CD 7. When it is done go to “MY Computer” and Click it and hit the “Setup” buttonand tada! Let it go through its normal setup process. This by-passes all the programing crap, and does it all for you in one program!
Hope this helpslet me know if it works for you. This has been a very useful site so I though I would post my experiences: I recently bought an Acer Aspire One A150 (1GB RAM, 120GB hard disk, Linpus Linux) – for you UK’ers Expansys are doing a good deal on these at the moment (£150 as of 7/7/2009). As it happened I played with the Linux desktop that came with it and was actually quite impressed. As part of this playing around I performed a Live Update.
I wanted to install Windows 7 RC so after downloading the 32 bit version, I came to this very useful site to create the bootable USB disk (in my case I used a fast 4GB CompactFlash card in a USB card reader). This worked fine and, after booting from it on the Aspire One, I sucessfully installed Windows 7 (it even automatically detected the built in WiFi chipset).
Because this was so successful, I bought another Aspire One A150 from Expansys and proceeded to try to install Windows 7 from the same CompactFlash card. This failed with a boot error from the Windows Boot Manager. This had me stumped for a while until I realised I hadn’t done a Live Update within the Aspire One’s Linux desktop. After letting the Live Update complete and rebooting to the CompactFlash card, Windows 7 installed successfully. In summary: do a Live Update in the Aspire One’s Linux environment first before trying the Windows 7 install (I am not sure why the Live Update causes a boot from the CompactFlash card in a card reader to work though). Jacou says.
I used my Aspire One all thru the Windows 7 beta, RC and eventually RTM. It ran very well on that little PC. Eventually, my battery stopped holding a charge and is now running Ubuntu Server under my desk. There really isn't much to installing the Win10 preview.
Download the Windows 10 ISO from here: Download the Windows ISO to USB tool: Use the second download to take the ISO (the first download) and turn it into a bootable USB drive. Plug that into your Aspire One and go through the installer. You may have to choose the clean install, I don't think Windows 10 can be upgraded from XP, but I'm not sure.
Be aware that the Windows installer will delete everything from your netbook, so back up as necessary beforehand. If you try it, report back. Let us know how it works! I'd like to share my experience in installing an April 2015 Insider Preview Windows 10 in an Acer Aspire One, model KAV10. First of all, I upgraded the RAM memory to 2 GB.
I downloaded the 32 bit version of Windows 10 and the Windows USB/DVD Download Tool, as oriented by jmshub. I burnt a 4GB pendrive and replaced the original HD with a spare one so I could make a fresh install.
The first try wasn't so straight as I expected. The installation process hanged up in the final steps so I had to start it over. In the second time, though, everything went well and the installation process has been completed after two programmed reboots in about 1:30 hs.
Windows 10 recognized and installed camera and touchpad drivers and both of them are running perfectly. The boot time is incredibly shorter than XP's and the performance is very good too. I experienced no problem with screen size or resolution, my main concern before the installation.
Until now the update has been worth! I installed Windows 8 on my Acer Aspire One Netbook when Windows 8 was first released - I bought one of those 25 licences that microsoft made available when it was first released.
Windows 8 works great on the netbook and I later upgraded it to 8.1. The Windows 10 compatability wizard reports the following: What I have now done in preparation is to create a 'System Image' onto an external USB Hard drive. This way if the upgrade goes wonky I can restore my computer back to where it was when I created the system image. You create a System Image from within Wndows. Goto Control panel Recovery File History System Iamge Backup then simply follow the prompts. I have an Acer Aspire 722-0473. It runs the C-60 1 Ghz with 2 cores (with Turbo to 1.3) and a Radeon 6290 (or something like that).
It has a 5400 rpm hard disk. I was able to install Windows 10 ( 64 bit) over the air. However I soon noticed that the system was idling at 50% of the cpu resources. I back graded to Win 7 Pro for a while and then made another stab at it. I 'turned every feature offered during the install off'.
And it still had a very high idle level. Needless to say when that background processes were that busy the foreground wasn't all that responsive. I have lately found a vendor who sells the recovery disk I need to restore my Aspire back to its 'original' condition (Win 7 64 bit Home Premium, with a fair amount of bloatware). I will be using that to see if I can return to my 'original' experience under Windows 7. Some more enterprising blogger needs to investigate and report what you have to do to turn all background features off and strip out 99% of the eye candy applications that are also probably running background processes. Then maybe it will run on my hardware.
I had the same netbook model (A150) back in 2012 and I had successfully installed Windows 7 32-bit and Windows 8 32-bit. With only 1GB RAM there was no reason to install 64-bit. I remember hacking the registry to enable 1024x768 resolution so I could use Metro Interface. Windows 10 should not be very different. Just install latest Windows 8 or 7 Intel drivers, hack the registry to enable 1024x768 and you should be good to go. Unfortunately I have sold mine to a friend, so I cannot test it and confirm it.
Install Windows 7 On Acer Q1vzc Average ratng: 9,7/10 7615votes After saving your BIOS changes, the computer will restart and boot from your USB Flash Drive. The installing will ask you which partition you would like to install Windows7 to.
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Choose the larger Partition2. Leave the OEM Partion1 intact. This is the factory restore partition which contains the original OS files that shipped with your computer. This partition allows you to restore your computer back to the way it was when you first brought it home. I believe rebooting and holding down ALT/F10 will start the Acer system recovery utility.
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Hi, I was wondering if someone cold show me how to install a full install of windows 7 RC1 on an Acer Aspire One 8.9 netbook using a 320GB external harddrive. I have important stuff in it but have more than enough space in it to carry the windows 7 installation and install it on my net book. I just don't know exactly what to do. I know that I have to make an image somewhere and extract the files from the image into a folder or something, but I don't know If I need to do anything special to my usb external hard drive in order to have it boot up the w7 installer and format my computer. Please.I would REALLY appreciate the help. You can install the RC on as many computers as you want, even using the same key. (Obviously you can't do this with a retail version.) If you activate the RC it should be a licensed system.
Not sure if the ISO tool will work with the RC, I've never actually used it, but you can try - it might allow it to be done since the RC is similar to the final version. Can I use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool to backup other files? This tool is only for use with the Windows 7 ISO file purchased from Microsoft Store. Whatever you end up doing make sure to back up any important data. Note: If you plan on buying Windows 7: Upgrade from Windows 7 RC to Final Sorry, you can't upgrade from the Windows 7 RC to the retail version. You have to reinstall XP or Vista first, then move to Windows 7.
The rules according to Microsoft: In order to install the upgrade version of Windows 7, you must have a qualifying Windows operating system installed and activated. You cannot install an upgrade version of Windows 7 on a blank hard drive. The installation procedure does not ask you to insert a Windows disc in the drive for verification, the actual qualifying operating system must be installed. If you do not have a qualifying Windows operating system installed with a genuine license activated, then you cannot use the upgrade version of Windows 7 - you would need a 'full version' Windows 7 license. In summary: 1. A qualifying Windows operating system must be installed.
The qualifying Windows operating system must have a genuine license (product key) and it must be activated. To upgrade, boot to the qualifying Windows desktop, insert the Windows 7 Upgrade disc in the DVD drive. From Microsoft: Please note: All users of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (including Windows Vista users who have upgraded to the Release Candidate) must do a clean installation of Windows 7 RTM. Please keep this is mind as you consider downloading the Release Candidate as opposed to waiting for the general availability release. Thanks again for your help in reaching this important milestone.
We hope that you will join us in testing the RC and finishing Windows 7! MCC 2011 TrekDozer Sharing bits of knowledge.