Total transition from 7k to Linux

Question

ASUS

I have been using Asus EEE PC 1005P for a year and a half now.
There is only one minus - Windows 7. In this regard, I installed Ubuntu 9 on a USB flash drive and happily used them alternately. Everything would be fine, but it so happened that a friend's dog ate this very flash drive.

Then I bought another one and put 10.10 on it. But I noticed that it works slowly, almost like Windows. I wrote it off for the new version and another flash drive.

And now I’m somehow completely saddened by the seven, so I decided to demolish it and put a full-fledged ubuntu on the hard drive.

Only one thing stops, and suddenly you have to return to the seven for some reason. All of a sudden.
Of course, the installation disk is self-made in the teeth and go.
I don't want to just lose eee-shnye utilities.

How to proceed?

Answer 1

Plug in an external hdd, usbshny cd-rom and make a clone of your disk through the Acronis boot disk. If anything, then format it as needed, roll the bootloader and restore everything.

Answer 2

1) Put in parallel if there is space.
Partitioning can be done from the Ubuntu disk.
2) Remove the image and write it down on a blank.
There are a lot of programs for working with images.
For example free and free - clonezilla

Answer 3

Install Ubuntu, VirtualBox and use Windows 7 as a virtual machine as needed

Answer 4

Perhaps I will remain in the minority, but
1. win7 works fine on a netbook (samsung n220)
2. the operating time on win7 is 2 hours longer than on ubuntu10.04
3. I don’t know how on asus, but on samsung you can make a backup with one button ( stored in an invisible partition)
I would leave win7, especially if it suits.

Answer 5

> How to proceed?
Cast aside doubts and bolder into battle! A year or a year and a half will pass and you will generally cease to understand how someone agrees to sit under Windows.

Answer 6

I would also advise you to put 2 systems on a hard one, if without 7-ki anywhere. I have a 250GB disk, I allocated 20 of them to Linux Mint, which is enough for now. If suddenly Windows is needed for something, I boot into Windows.
As for Grub - read this , it might be useful.

Answer 7

A long and expensive option (I'm going this way right now) and I don't know how applicable it is to your netbook.
Buy an intel ssd, remove the old disk and insert a new one, install linux on it.
Yes, there will be a cloning utility with the disk and try to copy win7 there and boot from the disk: I can’t guarantee that you will be delighted, but you will definitely be surprised at the speed of work.

Answer 8

Installed Ubuntu on EEEPC 1000HE as a second system, in addition to XP Home.
I had to remove hidden recovery partitions from the disk (there were two visible + two recovery, all primary, more partitions could not be created).
Worked great, dual boot.
Then instead of XP I installed Windows 7 - it naturally frayed the bootloader, restored Grub according to the manual (very easy), dual boot again.
I was surprised that all the EEE utilities and drivers for Windows 7 for the ancient 1000HE were found on the manufacturer's website, everything works.
I live in Ubuntu occasionally booting into Windows 7.

Answer 9

It’s also not a fact that the installed Ubuntu will be faster than Windows 7 - applications run very quickly from a USB flash drive in LiveCD mode, and slowly from a slow laptop screw.
At least on my 1000HE, some things in Windows 7 are much cooler than in Ubuntu - HD videos can be watched (Windows has DXVA), YouTube videos do not slow down.

Answer 10

I got out of a similar situation simply: I installed Ubuntu through the Wubi installer. Yes, it works slower than it could be if you install it fully, but otherwise there are no problems: both Windows are in place and Ubuntu works fine, and returning everything as it was was as easy as shelling pears - remove it as a program from the seven, and that's it.

Answer 11

We need a bootable USB flash drive with Ubuntu and an external HDD.
1. boot from a flash drive.
2. use the dd command to clone everything to an external drive.
3. With the help of GParted, cut off 10 GB plus or minus a kilometer from the Windows disk.
4. install Linux on the laptop's HDD
5. select the desired system at boot
5a. files on the Windows partition are already available to us (sometimes you need to mount the mount command, usually it picks up automatically)
6. after a month or two or three, make sure that the seven is not used and cut it from the disk, cut out an extra item from the bootloader
6a. files are still available, see item 5a.
7. cut out an image from an external HDD to free up space,
did you forget anything?
ps dd is a very good command
for example, this is how we copy a disk with a seven to an external HDD, compressing it on the fly
# dd if=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror bs=64K | gzip -c > /mnt/sdb1/windows7.img.gzip
bs equal to the cache size of the copied disk

Answer 12

it seems to me the easiest option is WUBI - www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/windows-installer
Ubuntu is installed directly from Windows as a normal application, when you boot the system, choose what to load Windows or Linux (GRUB)
as ubuntu needs, you can just boot into windows and from "Add or Remove Programs", just uninstall ubuntu ... I used it myself for 1.5 years, just then I stopped having enough disk space and got rid of Windows.