Comments on: No Windows 7 on the HP Mini 2140- yet

By: jawadkhattak

jawadkhattak — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:59:23 +0000

all u have to do is to insert that SD card into a card reader and then connect the card reader to the 2140 via usb port…..
that will hopefully do it for u :-)

By: nomo

nomo — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:42:43 +0000

Uhh, isn’t that a no-brainer? I was beginning to think the Port of Houston had imposed an embargo on USB flash drives.

By: Larry Thomas

Larry Thomas — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:40:48 +0000

Awesome news!

and James (cough cough) we both know there’s no room in your closet for me to fit in there (I barely had enough room for the webcam)

*snicker*

Larry

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 02:25:03 +0000

More to come shortly… (and Larry stay out of my closet). :)

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:20:19 +0000

Larry is *CLEARLY* a regular reader of the site. Or he has a webcam tucked inside Mobile Tech Manor. ;)

By: Larry Thomas

Larry Thomas — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:17:28 +0000

You do know that while we all have been typing these comments, James probably went down to his local Circuit City and bought a usb drive and cd/dvd rom drive, loaded Win 7, and is preparing the video for upload :)

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:27:02 +0000

I am shocked. A 2gb stick is the largest in all of Mobile Tech Manor!? Time to send out a requisition request to Om for an 8gig stick (at least… 16 would be better).

Oh yeah, and when I read the headline, I thought the story was about Windows 7 not working on the 2140, period.

While you’re at it, how about installing MacOS instead? Would be much more exciting.

By: Ross Wirth

Ross Wirth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:12:49 +0000

I was going to comment similar to Phillip and flying.

I haven’t done it since XP. But that’s how I would always re-image my XP boxes. Copy the CD/DVD to the HD, and install from there, it’s faster than the DVD, and if you leave the files in a directory on the HD you always have them if you “need the disk” for some update, (though I think MS has mostly eliminated that via d/l from the web for updates).

Best of luck. It’s on my list (as been for a couple of weeks) to install on my VaioUX to see how 7 performs on that tiny little guy, and/or my Fujitsu P1610, neither of which I can use with Vista anymore, after getting the HP 2730p. Maybe Win7 will breathe some life into them.

By: Luscious

Luscious — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:01:31 +0000

James, you need to get organized!

The minimum equipment I have on hand for every one of my notebook reviews include an 8GB USB thumbdrive and an external SONY burner. Useful, convenient and FAST.

And as your buddy Kevin mentioned, an ISO burning utility and virtual drive software will save you much time and many headaches.

I don’t get paid for my blog, yet even for me time is money – something I don’t like to waste.

By: vw

vw — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:03:33 +0000

What flying said. You don’t need bootable anything if you have the partition ready to go. Can’t install over XP, so you need a new partition, but I used GParted booted from a 1G Usb key. Then you can install via SD from inside XP

By: Flying

Flying — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:46:26 +0000

What are you doing? I installed windows 7 on multiple computers right off of the desktop! All you have to do is unzip the folder, open the unzipped folder and click on setup. This will start the setup and then you can just continue from there. no burning no copying, just unzipping. I burned the unzipped files onto a DVD and installed windows 7 on a nother computer. Easy peasy

By: Philip

Philip — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:16:12 +0000

if you have windows xp on there already you can run the install in windows ! just mount the iso using deamon tools or similar run setup.exe

did this to my laptop and works great… only problem is my laptops screen is broken :( nothing to do with win 7 but its too expencive to repair and my desktop works great, will probably be getting a hp 2140 when the high res screen is released xD

By: Lucke

Lucke — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:49:15 +0000

Putting memory card in USB adapter worked for me on a number of different configs. The memory card in my case was M2 and not SD, but that should not make a difference. I made it bootable with this procedure;

1. diskpart
2. list disk
3. select disk # (select the one that corresponds to USB disk in 2.)
4. clean
5. create partition primary
6. select partition 1
7. active
8. format fs=fat32
9. assign letter=y (or any free drive letter)
10. exit

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:44:26 +0000

I’ve done installs from Virtual CD and an .iso without fail. The Windows install copies the installation files locally before the reboots. :)

By: James Kendrick

James Kendrick — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:57:25 +0000

Kevin, that’s on the “to try” list too. My only concern is that the virtual drive not appear during a reboot for the install.

By: Alex Whiteside

Alex Whiteside — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:49:12 +0000

The service manual is now up on HP’s site (it’s actually an updated 2133 manual as they’re very similar) and it includes a comprehensive reference of the BIOS. Let me find you a link:

http://bizsupport1.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01658655/c01658655.pdf

Surprisingly, while there’s a boot priority option to load from a USB SuperDisk, which seems to be a long-discontinued Zip Disk sort of affair, the SD reader isn’t mentioned. So I think it may not be supported. However, that info is supposed to apply to the 2133 also, and we already know that’s SD-bootable, so it’s not necessarily accurate.