OEM LAptop Recovery to SD Card

[Amichai Rotman]

Thanks, I guess... But - how would that get me an SD card I can boot from
into the Asus OEM Windows XP?

Am I missing something?

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Amichai Rotman

UIN#: 6401746
Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]

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- "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
support of Paul."

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 21:03, Victor Padro <vpadro at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il>wrote:
>
>> I did contact them. They said I'd have to send the laptop to them to be
>> re-formated - something I could do myself with the DVD supplied.
>>
>> I am looking for a way to use this DVD to install the system - to an SD
>> card without touching the internal SATA Hard Disk...
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> .:====================================================:.
>>
>> Amichai Rotman
>>
>> UIN#: 6401746
>> Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
>> Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]
>>
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>> PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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>> George Bernard Shaw<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/george_bernard_shaw.html> - "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the
>> support of Paul."
>>
>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 14:18, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  Amichai Rotman wrote:
>>> > Hi all,
>>> >
>>> > I bought myself an Asus eeePC 1000HE. Saddly, it came with Windows XP
>>> > pre-installed.
>>> >
>>> > The first thing I did was wipe out the internal 160GB SATA HDD
>>> > (including the Recovery 50MB partition) by installing UNR.
>>> >
>>> > I'd like to be able to boot to Windows XP, for those occasions that
>>> > nothing else works...
>>> >
>>> > Since I own the Windows license, I see no problem to do that, but I'd
>>> > like it to be the one I got with the Asus.
>>> >
>>> > I have two issues:
>>> >
>>> > I have no external DVD-ROM
>>> > I am afraid it will wipe the existing installation on the HDD without
>>> asking.
>>> >
>>> > Can any of you point me to a resource regarding the installation of
>>> > the Asus OEM Recovery DVD directly to an SD card?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks!
>>> >
>>> > .:====================================================:.
>>> >
>>> > Amichai Rotman
>>> >
>>> > UIN#: 6401746
>>> > Registered Linux User#: 201192 [http://counter.li.org/]
>>> > Registered Ubuntu User #12851 [http://ubuntucounter.geekosophical.net]
>>> >
>>> >
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>>> > PLEASE READ: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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>>> > .:====================================================:.
>>> > Mitch Hedberg  - "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to
>>> > water them." -
>>> http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mitch_hedberg.html
>>> >
>>> >
>>>     You will need to contact the computer company and ask for a re-load
>>> kit. Explain something "went wrong" and you can't seem to load XP now".
>>> I did that and it worked with HP.
>>>
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>
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> You can create a live/installation disc using unetbootin, an Ubuntu Live CD
> and a 2GB SD Card, then just plug it on the reader and boot from it.
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