Heard of wubi , google for it , download. You can install ubuntu and keep windows. Dont like ubuntu , simply remove it from windows. You still preserve your MBR , recovery partition and everything else.

Easier this way rather then you going through a complicated method

You need to preserve the MBR. Otherwise its useless , you need to copy few things. Get Norton ghost , see if you can copy. If you're a cheap bastard like me , dd should do the trick. Whats dd you ask , well google for it.

Windows 7 starter cannot be obtained. Its meant for OEM , basically if you remove it you are not able to "restore" your netbook the way how it was. Thats all

You should get Acronis Partition tool

That kind of technology is only possible with MacOS X. I am not sure if there is a tool in windows which does that

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1131

Try to search for Virtual Burner windows

Anyway found one

http://www.noteburner.com/

This allows you to burn virtually , which should give you an iso format , transfer it to your desktop and burn it

Ah thats the limitation of MBR/BIOS

MBR only allows up to 4 , EFI (found on Macs and newer BIOSes/PCs) can do a lot

Basically you gotta reformat it. Primary partitions are partitions whereby the system is able to boot. It will get very complicated if I go in depth. If you want to know the reason why you can't , its because of MBR , it only allows up to 4. So you have all 4. You cannot make primary partitions.

Whats the command

@win7 - Sorry , thats how it works. Thats why we have GPT. Sadly only OS that takes advantage (well two) are linux and umm OSX . Windows fails to see GPT (unless you're talking bout server/enterprise edition) . GPT allows you to dynamically resize and make new partitions from free space. You are not limited to 4 primary partitions. That means you can have like 15 OSes installed on one HDD !

http://wiki.debian.org/rt2860sta

Do me a lspci -vn or lspci -vvnn and paste the output here

No internet ? just use ethernet and paste its output here

No


the guy who wanna get wifi working,

Follow this type

sudo -s

mkdir -p /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/

touch /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat

service network-manager restart

You need to get the files though , I am not sure if RT2860STA comes out of the box or not

It takes a while for the battery to get data on how long would it last. Few calibrations and I've seen it kinda common on certain HP laptops.

I think it works well with ubuntu , ubuntu should give how long the battery lasts.

Clearly he knows little or nothing at all. little knowledge is dangerous

Anyway you have have 2 Windows. You can choose not to see the other partition in the system. As long as the system does not mount or assign a letter to other windows partition. You should be good to go , aka windows 1 cant see windows 2 , so on and so forth

I dont use homegroup , just enable sharing normally. Homegroup kinda sucks


The steps are bit complicated , kinda hard for me to post one by one when i am on Windows 7 right now on my mac. I'll hop back to a PC , its because the mac uses a GPT style whereby all my partitions are primary

http://www.mioplanet.com/products/batterymeter/

Use that if you want to know the time. Its common among HP laptops. Some of them would refuse to display the time.