Hey all!first of all i'm not sure how i stand on this legally/license wise so just slap me if it's not possible but.Can anyone help me, we've acquired a bunch of Eee PC 901's (XP Version) but there's no recovery DVD's with them with the XP image and drivers etc. I know you can download all the drivers from the ASUS website but not a copy of the windows XP Home ULCPC (for obvious reasons) does anyone have a copy of one of these recovery DVD's they could send me an.iso or a copy?Cheersedit: alternatively does the license cover installing standard XP home on them?
The Xp sticker on the back says XP Home Edition ULCPC i'm not sure if these versions differ?
My netbook is an Asus EeePC 1005HA. It wouldn't boot anymore but I have been using it by booting from a USB with BartPE's XP on it.
I tried installing XP from this USB but get the error:'FILE $WINNT$.BTntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded. Error code 22'.My guess is that the new XP was a different version from the installed XP. So I used diskpart to reformat and re-partition C: so it would be clear of any previous OS. I still got the same error message. I was able to copya file to C:, so I know it is formatted and empty.How can I get a version of XP installed?Do I have to use the XP CD that came with the netbook?Any help would be greatly appreciated. I think I understand the SATA issue now. So I just went into BIOS and set the SATA to IDE.
I assume that I do not need the SATA driver now.I do not have a DVD drive to use the Asus Restore CD and I could not get that CD onto a USB drive.Therefore, I made a bootable BARTPE USB from another XP CD.After installing XP from the BARTPE USB flash drive, it booted and only got the blue 'WINDOWS SETUP' screen, then the same message '.ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded'.Other than buying a DVD drive to run the original setup disc, could you suggest anything else I could try? It's 'hard wired' to use an ext. CD/DVD drive in order to install the OS. Being that its also XP just makes this harder or impossible. Unless you have access to some ext.
Drive then its going to be practically a tail-chasing exercise. You may want to check out:My goto method that helps at times but not always, google for ADA-2020(or similar adapter) and have a CD drive laying around or remove from old PC for install use. Below is one and remember you can re-use this on other projects.tada -Willy. Thanks Willy.
Asus Eee Pc 4g Windows Xp Download
I've tried several versions of the USB installs and they all seem to hang when files need to be put on the HDD. Like R.Proffitt stated, it's probably an issue with XP not being able to work with SATA without drivers. I even tried a Live DOS USB with FDISK. FDISK insisted the HDD to be Drive 1 and the USB to be Drive 0. So it couldn't make the HDD the active bootable one.The adapter looks interesting, but since I only expect to use it once or so, I'm going see if Santa may spply me with an external DVD drive. I'll check back after Xmas.