Use an external harddrive or USB flash stick (if big enough). External harddrive recommended for backup purposes documents and software.
Use a computer that has a CD/DVD drive insert your cd and plug in the usb harddrive. In this example office 2007 will be used. Insert the office 2007 disc and go to my computer and right click the CD/DVDdrive and click explore press control a (to select all files) and then (control and c) to copy them all (control and a) should select and copy hidden files aswell that may be required. Explore your USB external Harddrive, create a folder for example I have Douments with all my documents and music etc backed up and then I have a folder saying Computer Software and then in there a folder saying office 2007, do the same or just have a folder saying office 2007, then open it and press control and v (paste) this will paste all the items on the disc into the folder. Now for a useful hint, right click in the folder and go to new>text or notepad document and label it product key, open it up and type in your product key. That way if you lose the original CD/DVD you can still use and install the software.
Repeat the following for all software you desore to install from the CD/DVD.
Plug the USB harddrive into your 1010 Netbook and open the folder where you have copied the office 2007 CD/DVD and locate your product key document and open it and look for a setup or .exe or application file (in this case is called setup). It will begin installing just like it would a CD/DVD note it may install slightly faster aswell. Copy and paste your product key when prompted.
Note is also useful to download the standalone service packs for example office 2007 service pack 1 and office 2007 service pack 2 into the office 2007 folder for example I have E:/Computer Software/Office 2007/Service Packs and then to double click on the service pack file to install them as soon as it finishes installing office 2007. That way you have the major updates for office 2007 installed straight from and less updates to download.
I have
E/Documents/Username/YYYY-MM-DD (this way vista and xp order it appropriately so the latest backup is at the bottom).
Philip_Yip
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July 19th, 2009 15:00
Use an external harddrive or USB flash stick (if big enough). External harddrive recommended for backup purposes documents and software.
Use a computer that has a CD/DVD drive insert your cd and plug in the usb harddrive. In this example office 2007 will be used. Insert the office 2007 disc and go to my computer and right click the CD/DVDdrive and click explore press control a (to select all files) and then (control and c) to copy them all (control and a) should select and copy hidden files aswell that may be required. Explore your USB external Harddrive, create a folder for example I have Douments with all my documents and music etc backed up and then I have a folder saying Computer Software and then in there a folder saying office 2007, do the same or just have a folder saying office 2007, then open it and press control and v (paste) this will paste all the items on the disc into the folder. Now for a useful hint, right click in the folder and go to new>text or notepad document and label it product key, open it up and type in your product key. That way if you lose the original CD/DVD you can still use and install the software.
Repeat the following for all software you desore to install from the CD/DVD.
Plug the USB harddrive into your 1010 Netbook and open the folder where you have copied the office 2007 CD/DVD and locate your product key document and open it and look for a setup or .exe or application file (in this case is called setup). It will begin installing just like it would a CD/DVD note it may install slightly faster aswell. Copy and paste your product key when prompted.
Note is also useful to download the standalone service packs for example office 2007 service pack 1 and office 2007 service pack 2 into the office 2007 folder for example I have E:/Computer Software/Office 2007/Service Packs and then to double click on the service pack file to install them as soon as it finishes installing office 2007. That way you have the major updates for office 2007 installed straight from and less updates to download.
I have
E/Documents/Username/YYYY-MM-DD (this way vista and xp order it appropriately so the latest backup is at the bottom).
E/Documents/Username/2009-19-07 (Latest document backup)
E/Documents/Music
E/Documents/Favourites Bar
E/Documents/Other
E/Computer Software/Dell Drivers/Inspiron 6400/XP/1. Dell Notebook Software
E/Computer Software/Dell Drivers/Inspiron 6400/XP/2. Chipset
....
E/Computer Software/Dell Drivers/Inspiron 6400/Vista/1. Dell Notebook Software
...
Similar thing for other Dell systems...
E/Computer Software/XP Updates
E/Computer Software/Office 2007/Ultimate
E/Computer Software/Office 2007/Home and Student
E/Computer Software/Office 2007/Professional Upgrade
E/Computer Software/Office 2007/Service Packs
And I have a similar file system for all other software and documents.
So if I have to reinstall the system I do a latest backup of documents and use the external harddrive to install everything once windows is installed.
Note I'm sure I could install xp for example form my folder saying, I don't know if they give you dell xp/vista cd/dvds or not with netbooks:
E/Computer Software/XP/XP Professional
But I do not know if it is possible to do that from the Dell BIOs screen using F12
Hope this was of some assistance to you, I may have typed too much unecessarily.
Carwyn
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July 20th, 2009 15:00
Hi there,
Many thanks for your e-mail reply, will try this out, great help
Kind regards