peh
03-06-2009, 09:44 AM
Yesterday I installed the windows 7 beta on my LE 1600. Because I have no external DVD I decided to install widows from my usb flash drive. Therefor I used a Flash Voyager GT from corsair. So here is a little howto:
How to get the widows 7 bootimage on a flash pen drive:
First of all we have to format the pen drive and set the partition as active. Therefor I used diskpart.
Start -> run -> diskpart.exe
type lis dis to show all local drives
detect your flash drive by size and get the number
make sure you have the correct drive number
type sel dis x (where x is the number of your pen drive)
type lis par to list the partitions
type sel par 1 to select partition one
type format fs=FAT32 LABEL="Windows 7" QUICK OVERRIDE to format the selected partition without further confirmation
type active to set the partition as active
Now we have to extract the bootimage we got from Microsoft:
I used winrar to extract the ISO-file to my harddisc (not to the pen drive)
then start cmd.exe and change to the directory where you extracted the ISO
type cd boot and then bootsect /nt60 F: Where F: is the drive letter of your pen drive
After that just copy all files from the ISO to your pen drive
Now we can boot the LE 1600 from our pen drive (perhaps you have to change the boot order in the bios). Installation is very quick but you'll need a USB keyboard because the pen is not supported during setup.
here I found some amazing Information about driver setup for the LE 1600 so almost everything works great even the fingerprint reader works without this crappy omnipass software.
http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/13/windows7-auf-einem-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pc/
First Impressions:
I would never change back to vista! Windows 7 is much faster than vista everything I need works fine and boot time is less than one minute to logon screen.
Just try, you won't miss vista ... Ok, that's not too hard ;)
How to get the widows 7 bootimage on a flash pen drive:
First of all we have to format the pen drive and set the partition as active. Therefor I used diskpart.
Start -> run -> diskpart.exe
type lis dis to show all local drives
detect your flash drive by size and get the number
make sure you have the correct drive number
type sel dis x (where x is the number of your pen drive)
type lis par to list the partitions
type sel par 1 to select partition one
type format fs=FAT32 LABEL="Windows 7" QUICK OVERRIDE to format the selected partition without further confirmation
type active to set the partition as active
Now we have to extract the bootimage we got from Microsoft:
I used winrar to extract the ISO-file to my harddisc (not to the pen drive)
then start cmd.exe and change to the directory where you extracted the ISO
type cd boot and then bootsect /nt60 F: Where F: is the drive letter of your pen drive
After that just copy all files from the ISO to your pen drive
Now we can boot the LE 1600 from our pen drive (perhaps you have to change the boot order in the bios). Installation is very quick but you'll need a USB keyboard because the pen is not supported during setup.
here I found some amazing Information about driver setup for the LE 1600 so almost everything works great even the fingerprint reader works without this crappy omnipass software.
http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/13/windows7-auf-einem-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pc/
First Impressions:
I would never change back to vista! Windows 7 is much faster than vista everything I need works fine and boot time is less than one minute to logon screen.
Just try, you won't miss vista ... Ok, that's not too hard ;)