How can i change the OS of my Asus EEE PC from Linux to Windows?

i don't have a cd rom, neither do i have a plan of buying one. can i just use a flash drive in changing the OS? help!How can i change the OS of my Asus EEE PC from Linux to Windows?
No you cannot use a Flash drive to install Windows. Even if you were able to boot a Flash drive with XP setup on it, the setup program wouldn't know how to find itself, because it thinks it needs to be on a CD. You could try cloning the partition from another XP install, but it might invalidate itself when it redetects all the hardware.



It's a bad idea anyway. XP performs very badly on the Eee PC. By the time you get XP tweaked to a usable state, you could have learned to use Xandros.How can i change the OS of my Asus EEE PC from Linux to Windows?
Find a friend who has an external CD/DVD drive. It is quite easy to install Windows on the Eee, and Windows actually runs well on the Eee. It is no speed demon, but for what you are supposed to be working on with the Eee, it is just fine. You won't be doing Adobe CS2 or gaming on the Eee, but anything intensive would run poorly on the Eee regardless of the operating system. Word processing, web surfing, and IM work fine. One thing I suggest doing is using nLite to slim down your Windows installation. Just be judicious in what components you choose to eliminate. When in doubt, keep the component in question intact and do not tell nLite to remove it from the install
Find a friend who has an external CD/DVD drive. It is quite easy to install Windows on the Eee, and contrary to what people say around here, Windows runs very well on the Eee. It is no speed demon, but for what you are supposed to be working on with the Eee, it is just fine. You won't be doing Adobe CS2 or gaming on the Eee, but anything intensive would suck on the Eee regardless of the operating system. Word processing, web surfing, and IM work fine.



One thing I suggest doing is using nLite to slim down your Windows installation. Just be judicious in what components you choose to eliminate. When in doubt, keep the component in question intact and do not tell nLite to remove it from the install.