Optical Drive on Netbook

rctneil

rctneil

rctneil

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Hey,
I have an Asus EEE PC and that obviously does not have an optica drive and I don't wish to purchase a separate external one. Is there any way I can use my Internal optical drive on my desktop pc as the optical drive for the netbook?

Thanks

Regards,
Neil
 
yeh, just found that out. thats works fine but if i wanted to install windows 7 on the netbook and wanted to boot from the drive, how do I do that?

Thanks

Regards,
Neil
 
rctneil said:
yeh, just found that out. thats works fine but if i wanted to install windows 7 on the netbook and wanted to boot from the drive, how do I do that?

Thanks

Regards,
Neil
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You would need an internal dvd drive to usb caddy and to take out the drive from your desktop.

You could get a usb dvd drive.

Or you could buy a reasonable sized flash drive (4gb and up) and set that up as a virtual dvd drive.
 
As lazyboy says, use a USB pen to install Win 7, that's the way I did it with my Netbook.

This was the way i set it up (information provided by OC Member L33)

To make an active partition in diskpart...

list disk (make a note of your USB drives number, replace X with it below)
select disk X
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign

Then just copy over the files from Win 7 ISO and set the USB drive as a primary drive in your BIOS so it tries to boot from there at start up and away you go.

Regards

Taff
 
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