Installing Windows on a netbook

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I've been eyeing up a netbook so I can maintain my website during my long commute and it seems you can get a pretty well specced up machine for under £300. I need Windows so I can install my legit copy of Dreamweaver but I have two issues: many come with Linux and the others have Windows pre-installed with all their manufacuter hacks.

I don't want all that crap on my machine and I usually reinstall Windows bare with just the drivers. Problem is none of these machines have CD drives so is it possible to install Windows from scratch?

Can you put Windows XP on a machine that ships with a Linux distro? Are the drivers available? Do they have a bios and set to boot from USB?
 
Ah ok, so looks like USB CD ROM is the way to go. I can probably lash one of them on using my USB-IDE adaptor then?

Not sure which model to go for but I think I want one with a conventional hard disk in so I can migrate from my current laptop. Some of them have 8Gb Flash drives and the others seem to have 120Gb hard disks. No middle ground which is frustrating.
 
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