Getting them onto a USB drive might have entailed the use of Unetbootin or Universal USB Installer. CNET listed several - Easeus Todo, Macrium Reflect, and Paragon Backup & Recovery Advanced - that would have been worth trying. If I hadn't already bought Acronis, I probably would have started with a highly rated freeware imaging program. I wasn't taking notes at the time, but in my recollection the process I used to get Acronis onto the thumb drive was, first, to install Acronis on a desktop and then use that program's Bootable Rescue Media Builder to install the program onto the USB drive. I was able to get Acronis loaded onto a USB flash drive, which was necessary since (a) the Eee didn't have a CD/DVD drive and (b) I didn't have an external USB CD/DVD drive to connect to it. I used Acronis True Image for this purpose.
My plan for disk space was to start with a backup of the existing program partition, copied to an external USB drive in case everything went south. It seemed advisable to squeeze out some disk space, if possible. Then there was another 15GB partition, apparently containing a backup of the original Win7 installation, as well as a tiny program partition at the end. Its hard drive, at around 300GB formatted, was big enough for a lot of material, but they had devoted 100GB to the Win7 Home Premium partition. Operationally speaking, the theory, not yet tested, was that I would be able to go running with this in my Deuter Speed Lite 20 backpack, and then just sit down and go to work, out in the woods or wherever.įirst, I had to configure the Eee the way I wanted it. Got it on sale for $359, reasoning that if inflation kicked in and/or the Japanese earthquake/tsunami damage affected equipment production, prices may not continue to drop as rapidly as they have in recent years.
I put my laptop up for sale and got an ASUS Eee PC 1215T-MU17-SL.
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