Alright, so HP decided Windows 7 ultimate should be on a netbook with a 1.8 ghz dual core and 2gb of ram.
Obviously it shouldn't, so I installed Ubuntu on it. Now the netbook has some kind of protection on it, so it blocks all operating system installers, so I pulled the drive and installed Ubuntu on another computer. The install finished perfectly fine, but I didn't let it finalize (Boot in and get the system settings of the comp, I just let it copy the files and unpack them).
I attempted to put the drive back into the netbook and let it finalize the install, but then the netbook gives me some bullshit saying that it can't find the unlocker or something? I'm not even sure, it never gave me the message after that.
Now it's telling me that there is no hard drive in the netbook. Can anyone help me out here? I'm not sure what magic trick to pull on this damn thing. I'm about to toss the entire netbook because it's so useless.
What is the lockout software called?
FYI I'm running Windows 7 on a Lenovo laptop with similar specs. It's HP's bloatware in the Windows installation slowing it down, not Windows itself.
Actually, fact is, my Intel Atom PC with 1GB RAM runs Windows 7 just fine.
You may have installed grub onto another drive by mistake.
See if the drive is in the bios (if you even have access to that).
If it really is the bios blocking you from running ubuntu take it back and never buy hp again.
Bootloader is on the wrong drive, you can disable protection from OS install in the bios
[QUOTE=RixxzIV;34523817]FYI I'm running Windows 7 on a Lenovo laptop with similar specs. It's HP's bloatware in the Windows installation slowing it down, not Windows itself.
Actually, fact is, my Intel Atom PC with 1GB RAM runs Windows 7 just fine.[/QUOTE]
My sister has the Dual Core hyperthreaded atom n570, i put a clean w7 install on it instead of acer's BS and it runs perfectly.
I have a hp mini 311 netbook and it runs Windows 7 just fine, and thats the 1.6GHz atom N270.
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