I know this is a Linux list, that's why I can talk about Windows 7  
getting in the way of installing Linux on an Asus Eee PC with a 1.6  
Ghz atom processor, 1 gig of ram, 250 GB hard drive, web camera built  
in, 14 hour battery life, and well that probably about covers it.   
This is the one that costs about $379.

No media disks provided.  I'm having the store inquire about getting them.
My dad's HP laptop has the same problem I found out.  If I have to back up
this Windows 7 system using Linux, can I do better than dd'ing the whole
entire drive?  I want to dual boot, the hard drive should be big enough.
The trouble is, how do I reinstall the boot loader without installation
media?  Do I need to dd copy the first four megs of the drive?  Do I copy
certain files off under Linux?  The gentoo based system on CD that I have
doesn't boot correctly on this machine, so I can't use a resizing tool :-(

I wonder if NTFS-3g which I have a full implementation of now is good enough?
I'm about ready to suggest buying another hard drive and popping the Windows 7
drive out in case the computer has to be taken in for servicing.

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