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Copy all of the contents off the USB drive (if you want to keep the contents).

Insert your USB Flash Drive into your machine running Windows Vista or 7.

(This article will not walk through the entire Win7 install procedure)Ĭreate a Bootable USB Flash Drive using your Windows Vista or 7 machine:

Boot to the USB drive and Install Windows 7.

Change the BIOS of your Acer to boot from USB drive.

Copy the contents of your Windows 7 DVD or ISO to the USB flash drive.

Create a Windows 7 bootable USB Flash Drive using your current Windows Vista or Windows 7 machine.

A USB Flash Drive (2.5+ GB or large enough to hold your Win7 DVD/ISO contents).

Machine running Windows Vista or 7 to create a bootable USB stick.

This article describes the steps I took to upgrade my Aspire One, but I suppose it would work on most systems. The problem is that most netbooks don’t have CD-/DVD-ROMs therefore I would need to image it using a USB flash drive. It came with Windows XP installed, so I decided I would install Windows 7.

Most of the netbooks I had seen run $300+, so I think this was a pretty good deal. Q: Alright I successfully completed the steps above, now what do I do?Ī: Now you can download the tool you wanted to run (such as CHKDSK) or your BIOS update application (from the manufactuer) and place the files on to the root of the flash drive.Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I went out on Black Friday and picked up an Acer Aspire One netbook for $195. Don't worry, the relevant files are still there Q: I checked my flash drive after applying the steps above and it is empty? What gives?!Ī: Unless the option to show protected operating system files is checked in folder options, Windows will hide these files due to their attributes matching that of system files. If you are running an 圆4 system with no floppy drive and a manufactuer who only provides a 16-bit BIOS updater, this method is the only way to update your BIOS. A MS-DOS bootable disc can be used to run many recovery tools (still used today) and also update the BIOS of the computer. Q: Why would a MS-DOS USB Drive be useful today? Wasn't that included in older Operating Systems?Ī: MS-DOS was the underlying layer of the Windows 9x series of Operating Systems (Windows 1-ME) that was the "functionality" of the system. You may remove the files extracted from the archive "win98boot", they are not needed anymore