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My recently aquired (used) asus eee pc 701 came with XP installed and no support CD/DVD. I wanted to get rid of XP and have a play with the stock linux O/S instead: I expected this to be an easy gimmie, but it was not, and ate up an evenings worth of my time googling around for solutions so I’m going to lay out the shortcuts here to hopefully save someone else the pain.As mentioned, the eeepc I acquired had XP installed (nlited) and no recovery DVD, so no option of using the built in rescue partition to restore the EEEPC back to the factory state. (Apparently you can hit F9 normally and it takes to to a ‘restore me from hidden partiton’ type GRUB menu). I figured this wouldn’t be a problem, I’d just go to the Asus support site and grab the image. Its linux, right, should be able to get the firmware images easily from the manufacturer, right?Wrong.I ransacked the looking for what I needed: at the other end of the search I can honestly say I found zero useful material or info there. (Don’t even bother visiting it, you’re better off going straight to google for this). The support/download section had BIOS updates and the like, but nothing to help with a reinstall.

Even searching the forums for what I imagined to be blatantly obvious issues (eg: where do I download the restore cd?) came up with bupkis.I concluded, to my chagrin, Asus has decided to withhold the support software (a linux distro?) for whatever reason, and the forums were evidently being policed according to this policy, removing any useful information pertaining to it. Everything runs okay until I get to this error:Home partition (sdb1) exists already. Formatting this partition may reslt in data loss. Enter ‘yes’ if you would like to format this partition.Format parition? yes/NO: yesFormatting home partitionmke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)cp: cannot create directory ‘mnt/mnt/user’: Input/output errorReady Press ENTER to rebootDoes anyone know how to correct this? I installed Ubuntu and have to switch it back to Xandros so I can ship it back to the factory otherwise it’s not covered under warranty. When I reboot, it goes to the “Starting system” screen with the ASUS logo (as if in Xandros) but then flashes a cursor and the black screen shifts back and forth from dark black to just black.

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I’m at a loss! Please help.Nick. This didn’t work for me (Feb 2012). The exe that was supposed to create the bootable flash disk did that, but the copy step happened way too quickly for it to actually be copying the files over.My eee PC would be and then I got the same error as many people above:Could not find a valid EeePC installation image on the USB/SD device. Please create the EEEPC USB or SD-card image & retry.So I used unetibootin instead of the file listed in step (1) and it worked.

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Unetbootin also runs on Windows 7 and Vista, which the other program listed above does not.Thanks for the basis of the tutorial — it helped me along the way.