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[KaelGotDwarves]

ALWAYS install windows first.

Windows raises a huge shit if it's not the first OS on a computer, whereas linux (especially ubuntu) learns to play nice with windows already being there.

[Areyar]

Yeah, thanks. I thought I had read that someplace.
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Crappy thing: I (temporarilly!) bought a usb-dvd drive to use for install, but the BIOS does not recognize it.

Next to useless anyhow as the OEM is an IMG on a partition on my now external HDD, which also has my factory install of WINXP already, also the CD with drivers etc that was supplied with the CD/DVDdriveless(!)-netbook does not contain winXP as I was led to believe.

First boot it ended in a blue screen. after I selected the version I wanted to keep.
For my second boot I decided to disconnect my external drive and try to boot from disk. no go. looking in the BIOS shows the drive is not recognized. Also on my main PC, the disc is revealed as a drivers only.
Screen is black with a message that no OS is available.
My third boot, with USB-HDD, has it autoloading the Samsung restore utility...creating a restorepoint on my external bootup now.
Unfortunately I could not restore to the empty drive, this would have been optimal.

Things seem to work for now, I'm uncertain to what caused the BS earlier.
Luckily I did find that the HDD has two partitions 1: windows OS, 2:OS_IMG, so even if autorestore won't work to create a duplicate OS install on my internal SSdrive, it can be installed from scratch. In which case the DVDdrive will come in handy for installing the drivers. (Though those could have been copied to an USB-stick or drive as well.)

edit:
aw excrement!
reboot after successfull backup: BSreboot
trying to restore from external to internal now. windows is loading files . . . apparently.
edit: ah it asked me to restore to C:\ and this time I have a restore point to restore from.
kay. that did NOT install windows on my SSD.
The bluescreen remains. I think it is providing an errormessage about harddrives...
this sucks. the guy at the store said it worked.

[Areyar]

aaargh!

Used the dvd drive to format C and install a copy of win, only now it demands I find it SP2 files or reboot. 
booting from the external HDD still provides me the BS. So my theory it was the SSD not being formatted is fail.

how the FXCK do ye install from an OEM image when there is no OS / the OS crashes before anything can be done?
putting the files on a USB stick does no good, as it only wants to read A:\ or the DVDdrive.
advice found online does not work as regedit wont run.
trying to burn files to a disk....

 

[Zironic]

You can't install clients on Chrome OS btw. It's a browser OS.

[Areyar]

huh? whoever mentioned chrome?

Got a bootdisk from the shop, only it is non-english...
First going to try to use Hiren's bootdisc to make a ghost and expand it on my empty drive.

Ubuntu I'll install at a later juncture when things have settled down and I've recharged the energy required for these harrowing IT marathons.