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Originally Posted by flat5
I'm talking about one specific netbook. Medion Akoya.
I posted my experience because if someone thinks that after they buy a netbook they will want to change the OS right away they may have a problem that they did not consider.
I tried usb, external cd rom, and install from hard disk.
Every way and version resulted in the same blue screen after the first re-boot after Windows installed the first run drivers.
What I would call after the first stage of install.
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I don't believe that this is accurate. I have never heard of a bios locking someone into a specific OS.
In this specific case, it's almost certainly innaccurate--the Medion Akoya mini is just a rebranded MSI Wind, which is just as easy to put whatever OS you want on as any other netbook--people have put OSX, Windows 7, Linux, other flavors of XP on them quite regularly.
Now, I'm not saying you weren't able to get Windows on it via the methods you attempted, as if you scroll up you see I just basically stated I can't get windows 7 on my eeePC and should be able to. I freely admit in my case it's user error, or incompatible tutorials, rather than any sort of actual hardware limitation, and am trying a simpler method to route around that error. I suspect in your case it is the same.