Samsung NC10

thought said:
when I connect VGA what resolution should i be able to get? at the moment it only lets me have the same res as the screen...
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You should be able to set your external screen res in either the windows display settings control panel or the intel graphics control panel.

For the record, my nc10 works fine on my hdtv and on my 2407 at native res on both. :)
 
Ack, just tried to install my copy of Windows 7 but, back in Jan, I must have chosen the 64bit version to download rather than the 32bit. How was I supposed to know I was going to get a 32bit machine!

Drat, it won't let me install it on the NC10.
 
For those with W7, anyone managed to find any graphics/video drivers apart from the inbuilt W7 WDDM 1.0 ones?

Mine is struggling a little even with just Youtube/iPlayer etc.

Apart from that W7 is running like a charm :D
 
This what I did to install onto an external usb hard disk. A usb stick should be no different. This was run from vista so XP may differ. Follow it exactly.

Items in quotes mean you type it in as is without quotes.

1. Type in diskpart from a cmd promt as administrator
2. type "List Disk". Note down the disk number (known hitherto as NN) for the usb device. Triple check you have got the right one.
3. "Select Disk NN" (Replace NN with number reflecting your USB Drive)
4. "clean"
5. "create partition primary"
6. "active" (vista may prompt you to format it - ignore it)
7. "format fs=fat32 quick" (or "fs=NTFS" if your hd is large - won't let you format it to FAT32)
8. "assign"
9. "exit"

Assumption is that Vista has assigned the usb device as S:

Mount the iso of your windows 7 dvd using your favourite mounting tool. Assumption L: is your mounted iso.

Go into the L:\boot on your windows 7 mounted iso and run:

"bootsect.exe /nt60 S:" replace S: with the drive name of your usb device

Now copy everything over from your windows 7 mounted iso to the usb device. I prefered to use xcopy to do this:

"xcopy L:\* S:\ /e /f" <-- L:=iso S:=sub

Change the boot order in your bios to book from usb and bingo, bob's your uncle.

Good luck.
 
Hi there

Thanks for this, is this to install onto a USB pen or setup so I can boot and install the operating system onto my laptop from the USB pen?
 
Stuck Win7 on my Sammy a few days ago, its running like a charm.

Easiest way (assuming you already have a partitioned drive) is to download the .iso, and either mount it, or open with PowerISO (or similar) and run the setup file.

Smooth, even with Aero, I haven't performed any tweaks performance-wise, and it is running great. Recommended!
 
tweakinfreak said:
Hi there

Thanks for this, is this to install onto a USB pen or setup so I can boot and install the operating system onto my laptop from the USB pen?
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Yes. It's to prime the usb pen to make it bootable and also to transfer all the files from the iso to the pen drive. I used this method to install windows 7 onto my other partition as I wanted to retain XP.
 
zpos said:
This what I did to install onto an external usb hard disk. A usb stick should be no different. This was run from vista so XP may differ. Follow it exactly.

Items in quotes mean you type it in as is without quotes.

1. Type in diskpart from a cmd promt as administrator
2. type "List Disk". Note down the disk number (known hitherto as NN) for the usb device. Triple check you have got the right one.
3. "Select Disk NN" (Replace NN with number reflecting your USB Drive)
4. "clean"
5. "create partition primary"
6. "active" (vista may prompt you to format it - ignore it)
7. "format fs=fat32 quick" (or "fs=NTFS" if your hd is large - won't let you format it to FAT32)
8. "assign"
9. "exit"

Assumption is that Vista has assigned the usb device as S:

Mount the iso of your windows 7 dvd using your favourite mounting tool. Assumption L: is your mounted iso.

Go into the L:\boot on your windows 7 mounted iso and run:

"bootsect.exe /nt60 S:" replace S: with the drive name of your usb device

Now copy everything over from your windows 7 mounted iso to the usb device. I prefered to use xcopy to do this:

"xcopy L:\* S:\ /e /f" <-- L:=iso S:=sub

Change the boot order in your bios to book from usb and bingo, bob's your uncle.

Good luck.
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I have a Buffalo 500Gb external USB HDD, im guessing i can do this too?
 
just stuck an intel 5300 draft n wifi card into my nc10. intel drivers and app installed ok and everything is working, just need to stick another aerial in and test it properly on a draft n router which i'll do when I get home next week.
 
Jamesdavid3 said:
I have a Buffalo 500Gb external USB HDD, im guessing i can do this too?
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Yup, just remember to backup anything you want to keep. The "clean" command is unforgiving! However, once you've made the disk primary and active, you shouldn't need to wipe it ever again if you want to boot another windows OS from it.

You'll need to use the NTFS option in step 7 as it won't allow a disk size that large to be FAT32.
 
zpos said:
Yup, just remember to backup anything you want to keep. The "clean" command is unforgiving! However, once you've made the disk primary and active, you shouldn't need to wipe it ever again if you want to boot another windows OS from it.

You'll need to use the NTFS option in step 7 as it won't allow a disk size that large to be FAT32.
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So i have to format my 500Gb External HHD(NTFS)?? because thats what ive backed everything from my laptop onto.
 
Jamesdavid3 said:
So i have to format my 500Gb External HHD(NTFS)?? because thats what ive backed everything from my laptop onto.
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You might be able to get away with just setting it as primary and activating the partition it. I had issue doing this and then just formatted the HD.

It's a lot easier if you've got access to a 4Gb usb stick. Might be worth getting a cheapo one for this type of thing?
 
Does anyone know how big this thing is compared to an EEE PC 701? I'm looking to upgrade as this thing is just slow enough to be frustrating, with either linux or XP.
 
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