Got CR48 Today With Windows 7 Installed

[Brent]

Hi,

Hoping someone can help me. I got my CR48 today and started it up only
to find it was running Windows 7 in what looks to be Japanese or
Chinese.

Can someone let me know what happened? There is no Chrome OS to be
found.

You can see pictures I took here after unboxing:
http://www.mustangevolution.com/forum/f99/t284626/

[Junjun Mao]

Looks like you have a refurbished SSD in Cr-48.

[Brent]

What does that mean, other than the obvious? Were they running tests
on it and never got around to installing Chrome OS on it?

[Matt Richards]

For real? Wow... In the short term, are you able to enter recovery to install the OS?

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[Brent]

I do not have a Linux or Mac machine at the moment to do the recovery
steps. So I have a weird Windows 7 install CR48 in the mean time lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9JzYTP4xc That is video of it booting
up

On Dec 29, 5:48 pm, Matt Richards <mricha...@gmail.com> wrote:
> For real? Wow... In the short term, are you able to enter recovery to
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> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Brent <bamastang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > What does that mean, other than the obvious? Were they running tests
> > on it and never got around to installing Chrome OS on it?
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> > On Dec 29, 5:40 pm, Junjun Mao <j...@ccny.cuny.edu> wrote:
> > > Looks like you have a refurbished SSD in Cr-48.
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> > > On 12/29/2010 05:17 PM, Brent wrote:
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> > > > Hi,
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> > > > Hoping someone can help me. I got my CR48 today and started it up only
> > > > to find it was running Windows 7 in what looks to be Japanese or
> > > > Chinese.
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> > > > Can someone let me know what happened? There is no Chrome OS to be
> > > > found.
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> > > > You can see pictures I took here after unboxing:
> > > >http://www.mustangevolution.com/forum/f99/t284626/
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[Deidre Elizabeth]

All i can say is "EEEEEEEKKKKKKKK A MOUSE!

[Bryce D]

You could use an Ubuntu live CD.

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[Brent]

I need a Linux machine anyway. Installing Ubuntu now.

On Dec 29, 6:02 pm, Bryce D <cattr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Brent <bamastang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I do not have a Linux or Mac machine at the moment to do the recovery
> > steps. So I have a weird Windows 7 install CR48 in the mean time lol
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> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9JzYTP4xcThat is video of it booting

[Beth]

well it would be a perfect oppurtunity for you to install Chrome OS yourself it thats something you enjoy.  :D

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[uberamd]

Thats strange, I see a BIOS with an Intel logo, which my CR-48
certainly doesn't have.

On Dec 29, 6:53 pm, Brent <bamastang...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I do not have a Linux or Mac machine at the moment to do the recovery
> steps. So I have a weird Windows 7 install CR48 in the mean time lol
>

> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy9JzYTP4xcThat is video of it booting

[Junjun Mao]

I meant someone returned a SSD, previously used on a Windows computer,
to cr-48 manufacturer who probably produce other computers, and the
manufacturer mistakenly installed it on your cr-48.

It is also possible Google tested windows before sent it to you, but why
install a Chinese Windows then?

[BigRedFed]

What I find interesting is how fast Windows 7 boots up!

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[Wei Hu]

It's Chinese.

[rwmuller]

Very strange. By my recollection most Win7 installs take up more than
16Gb, like a lot more. I think you have a keeper, not matter what OS
it boots.
It would be interesting to try to kick it to bios and boot from a USB
drive with Ubuntu or Chrome.
Good luck!

[rwmuller]

Imagine the guy who gets the bug report!

[Matt Richards]

Has to be a mistake of some kind from the manufacture. I don't think a Cr-48 can boot windows with its customized BIOS come to think of it.

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[Allen B]

Download the recovery image and burn it onto a USB drive.

Take a paper clip and press the recovery reset button on the underside
of the netbook near the VGA port.

Insert the USB and away you go.

http://www.google.com/support/chromeos/bin/answer.py?answer=1046510

On Dec 29, 5:17 pm, Brent <bamastang...@gmail.com> wrote:

[defcon]

wow thats crazy, I wonder if I could acronis image windows 7 to the
ssd and boot it up lol, if I was you i'd try to get a full dump of the
os to see how it was done

[Damis648]

Is there a way you could try and extract the BIOS, using something
like Everest? That BIOS looks useful...

On Dec 29, 5:17 pm, Brent <bamastang...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Brent]

Done: http://www.mustangevolution.com/forum/f99/t284626/