How to upgrade to Win7 Home Premium without CD/DVD drive? I got a full copy of Win 7 home premium. However, its the DVD only + activation code. How can I install that on my new T101MT?also, I don't just want to "upgrade"...i want to do a fresh clean install of Windows to get rid of extra junk that the computer comes with...how can I go about doing this? How to upgrade to Win7 Home Premium without CD/DVD drive? I got a full copy of Win 7 home premium. However, its the DVD only + activation code. How can I install that on my new T101MT? » Read More How to upgrade to Win7 Home Premium without CD/DVD drive? I got a full copy of Win 7 home premium. However, its the DVD only + activation code. How can I install that on my new T101MT?also, I don't just want to "upgrade"...i want to do a fresh clean install of Windows to get rid of extra junk that the computer comes with...how can I go about doing this? « Show Less
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If you have a large enough USB jump drive you can make a install from it. Just make the USB drive bootable, i used Diskpart in windows 7. (only diskpart in vista and 7 supports USB devices) Once the USB drive is setup to be bootable just copy all the files from the windows install CD to the root of the USB drive. Reboot computer into bios and edit the boot order for USB device first. if everything worked it should prompt a install just like the windows install CD. Im not going to list the commands for diskpart just google for it. i hope this helps
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I suggest you run the Windows 7 upgrade advisor from Microsoft. Pay close attention to the 64 bit options. Do not delete the fat32 partion. Windows antime upgrade works just fine. I would install 1GB of RAM first. A clean install will make some functions disappear. Asus does not post all working files on the download site.
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As I understand it, this Asus netbook does not come with Windows 7 CDs. It is preinstalled on the netbook. You will need to obtain some sort of backup software to back the entired hdd to some other media. Or make an image copy of the 250GB HDD. The Widows 7 Home Premier that comes with this netbook is the 32bit version. The maximum ram usage on a 32bit system is 3GB. To go to the 4GB maxium ram usage, have to install Windows 7 64bit version then have to upgrade all of the drivers to the 64bit version too.
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The others were windows 8, but that could change any time. Upgrading only requires a decent internet connection - the download is almost 4GB. It's free.If the upgrade doesn't show up right away in the windows store, install all of the windows updates you can install until there aren't any more. It should show up in the store as a part of the windows updates.
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I called Amazon and they could not verify that the free upgrade would be included. I also called Toshiba and I was told that units meeting certain requirements and manufactured after March of this year are eligible (what ever that means since we can't verify that information). Although I did not get a "guarantee" of any kind, I bought the Toshiba Satellite A505-S6973 anyway. Fortunately, it arrived with instructions on how to receive the free upgrade to Windows 7. I chose the online option to request the upgrade. The Windows 7 upgrade does cost about $12 for tax, shipping, handling. So not exactly free, but almost. They do require a copy of your proof of purchase that you can scan and attach to your online request or it can be faxed or mailed separate from you online request. Hope this helps.
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An upgrade keeps other programs installed on the computer intact with no need to locate installation disks for those programs so in my opinion an upgrade is the preferred way to go. I am not sure if the upgrade must be from ultimate to ultimate version. My upgrade was from vista ultimate to windows 7 ultimate which was problem free.
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It comes with Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. Unfortunately, that's all I can tell you. I don't believe it came with a service pack upgrade.
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It's just a drivers/utility DVD. The Windows 7 install DVD must be created via the recovery partiton (4 DVD's to burn!). And it will only restore the partition & Windows to their factory state (all other info on the drive will be destroyed.)
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I think windows 7 is preinstalled but you are allowed to upgrade it to windows 8 for free. So when you boot it up the first time you will have win 7
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Mine did not have Windows 7 activated. You had to jump thru some hoops with Windows to get them to accept your certification. I did get a CD with the Windows 7 app on it as well, which is a bonus. My refurbisher had pre-installed a bunch of stuff, including a free antivirus, a pdf reader, office , etc. I think some refurbishers are better than others. Mine seller was Vertex PC.
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My suspicion is that it would not fix your issue because Win 7 starter should be able to work with an external USB DVD drive without any problems. I upgraded my wife's netbook to Win7 Home before I ever tried to use an external DVD drive on her machine, so I'm not sure if I ever would have had issues with the starter edition. Since then, however, I've used a DVD drive to install lots of other software to that machine. I would suggest working through this troubleshooting checklist before spending any money on the Win7 upgrade: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-hardware/acer-netbook-with-windows-7-starter-does-not/bf1fbbd5-bec7-4055-b3d7-2d5853d06903?page=3
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I upgraded from Windows XP. It backs up everything, installs windows 7,and then reloads everything back in. I am also going to do it to a windows Vista machine. I bought a brand new upgrade version of Windows 7 off of Ebay from a company in the UK and it only cost me 154.00 American dollars. That included shipping. My first copy I bought off of Amazon and it cost 210.00 dollars. Do some research and you might be able to save some money. The upgrade version does all the hard work for you, the factory version does a clean install and won't back up anything first. Hope this info helps and good luck.
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The computer in question comes only will Dell software. If you wants to add Windows 7 Business or Ultimate, you can purchase either program and easily load it yourself. You would then have the cd-disk available if you ran into a problem with the program/s in the future, if you needed to re-load it.
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The first thing I did with mine was to swap in a SSD, so similar situation with a new blank drive. The Windows 8 activation is in the hardware so just get a copy of the Windows 8 installer (friend's disc or download the ISO and burn a disc or USB from another computer). Once installed you'll have to use the hard-line Ethernet to update Windows (WiFi won't be working at this point). Once all the Windows Updates are done put in the model number on Asus's support site for the rest of the software and drivers. Then run Windows Update one more time just in case. At least that's how I spent my first Saturday with mine.
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Hello Cos, thank you for contact us, yes, this computer come with Windows 7 Home Premium + Certificate of Authenticity + CD Media
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The first thing I did with mine was to swap in a SSD, so similar situation with a new blank drive. The Windows 8 activation is in the hardware so just get a copy of the Windows 8 installer (friend's disc or download the ISO and burn a disc or USB from another computer). Once installed you'll have to use the hard-line Ethernet to update Windows (WiFi won't be working at this point). Once all the Windows Updates are done put in the model number on Asus's support site for the rest of the software and drivers. Then run Windows Update one more time just in case. At least that's how I spent my first Saturday with mine. The first thing I did with mine was to swap in a SSD, so similar situation with a new blank drive. The Windows 8 activation is in the hardware so just get a copy of the Windows 8 installer (friend's disc or download the ISO and burn a disc or USB from another computer). Once installed you'll have to use the hard-line Ethernet to update Windows (WiFi won't be working at this point). Once all the Windows Updates are done put in the model number on Asus's support site for the rest of the software and drivers. Then run Windows Update one more time just in case. At least... » Read More The first thing I did with mine was to swap in a SSD, so similar situation with a new blank drive. The Windows 8 activation is in the hardware so just get a copy of the Windows 8 installer (friend's disc or download the ISO and burn a disc or USB from another computer). Once installed you'll have to use the hard-line Ethernet to update Windows (WiFi won't be working at this point). Once all the Windows Updates are done put in the model number on Asus's support site for the rest of the software and drivers. Then run Windows Update one more time just in case. At least that's how I spent my first Saturday with mine. « Show Less
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No you cannot. You must have one unique (paid for) Product Key for each machine you want to install Windows 7 on. The System Builder DVD gives you one product key good for one machine only. You can buy additional licenses, however. I don't know the details of how to use or take advantage of Microsoft's "Volume Licensing". I don't install Microsoft Operating Systems in large enough volume to justify the cost of a volume license. However the idea is you get one product key per machine -- something like that. What you can be sure of is that if you install a Microsoft Operating System from a DVD, be prepared to type in a unique, paid-for product key for each machine you install on. You can browse http://www.microsoft.com/oem to get more information about their System Builder program, including the licensing.
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You would need a valid (unused) Windows 7 key, so most likely you'd need to buy a copy. I just did this, there are a few changes you need to make in bios to get it to install, too.