There are many ways to install Windows Vista on the EeePC, this solution will do it all from a single USB flash drive.

Requirements:

• USB Drive flash drive
• Computer running Windows XP / Windows Vista
• Vlite
• Windows Vista DVD

Following this guide is easy, once complete you will be able to install Windows Vista from a USB flash drive.Vlite is optional, but you will need to have sufficient HDD space for the install. Vlite is strongly recommend to create a customised installation suitable for the EeePC.

Step 1:

Make sure the USB flash drive is connected

Step 2:

Open the command prompt, Start > Run > cmd

Step 3:

Type diskpart in the cmd window, press enter. Then type:

list disk

and press enter. Confirm the disk number that your usb drive has, for this guide disk 1 is the example.

Step 4:

Now that we know our usb flash drive is disk 1 we can begin. Enter the following in the cmd window you currently have open, adjust accordingly to your configuration.


select disk 1
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32
assign
exit

Step 5:

D: drive letter that contains the installation files (Windows vista dvd) and G: is the USB flash drive.

We will now copy the installation files to the flash drive, using the cmd once again enter the following command:

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f g:\

Finished!

Put the usb flash drive into your EeePC and boot from it, Finished!