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Using Win Toolkit was my whole idea in the first place (sorry if that wasn't clear). I just thought posting in this forum people would assume I was wanting to strip 7 HP down using Win Toolkit. Personally I don't care about removing WMP and some other stuff, so I was hoping someone could advise me who had already gone through the steps on an old netbook with a small SSD (a few Asus Eee PC and other models also were manufactured with 8GB IDE SSDs that originally came with either XP or some variant of Linux). Thx. Yes, please. I obviously should have put it there in the first place. :newhere:

Thanks, but 7 is/was the goal. If it won't work it won't work. I was just hoping there was a way to trim a gig out of the installation.

Yeah, but I'm trying to avoid putting any dough into it at all. I checked eBay and they have 16GB ones for around $30, but it really isn't even worth that to me. Thx.

Hi, Topic title says it all. I'm trying to get 7 HP onto a Dell Mini with a 8GB PATA SSD. I've now done it twice -- straight up and by stopping the process at the first reboot and telling it to compress Windows files as described here: http://gizmodo.com/5257386/how-to-install-windows-7-on-almost-any-netbook Neither has made any difference. I'm bumping up against the ceiling of the drive. So, I want to strip out whatever I can within reason. I thought perhaps someone here has done this exact process with such a small SSD and would have some tips (also, I'd like to integrate updates into the ISO but that's gravy). Thanks to anyone who can tell me how I can safely remove some clunk and get a nice, shiny ISO that leaves me with, hopefully, a couple of GB on this little SSD.