OEM LAptop Recovery to SD Card

[Victor Padro]

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!
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> Amichai Rotman
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> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 14:18, Karl F. Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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!
>> >
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>> >
>> > Amichai Rotman
>> >
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>>     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.
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>> 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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