How To Create A Windows Installation Disk From Your Old PC

If you have bought a mac and want to get windows onto it from your old computer, have no fear. I found some great instructions on how to make a bootable windows XP cd from a PC. Not sure if it will work with Vista, but it definitely worked for XP.
http://www.howtohaven.com/system/createwindowssetupdisk.shtml

Hi and welcome,
One way is to save a recover set ... with OKR ... or better do this Backup before ...but no way to get a pure Windows 7 Install Disc if you mention this ...
And Windows 7 64 Bit will not run on Atom based machine.. i.e. S10/S10e/S10-2 ,S12 Intel/Nvidia ...
(and even when, it lacks of memory 2GB (due the intel chipset restrictions) is good for 32 Bit based systems, but not really enough for 64 Bit based systems, so there is no benefit for use a 64bit on a netbook)
S10-3t W7 64 ?
sincerely KalvinKlein
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