Clean install Windows 7 Ultimate in Lenovo S12 ION edition

So I received my Lenovo S12 Netbook with ION support today. Being a person who's sort of obsessive compulsive, I instantly wanted to wipe my machine machine and start installing Windows 7 Ultimate edition from scratch.

My first hurdle is the bootup. It seem Lenovo create some create 100Mb partition as bootup partition, and use it to boot up the actually Windows 7 partition. Maybe that's their way of providing system restore. But I don't want their ugly restore with all those nonsense software. So I used my Windows 7 install thumb drive, and found that my new install created install partition didn't bootup properly.

Eventually I had to:

• Move the partition 100Mb partition from first to anything but first parititon. I moved it behind my main new partition.
• Create a big huge partition as the first partition, and set it to active.
• HIDE all other partitions (my plan is to delete them all once the system is stabilized)
• Use the Windows 7 USB Installation, but make sure you WIPE the new big partition clean.
  

After then I got successful installation. Notice that I kept almost all the old partition in tact so that I can roll back just in case.

Also notice that when using USB thumb drive to bootup Acronis Disk Direction or True Image, I have to use the SafeMode instead of the full mode, or otherwise the internal harddisks won't show up properly.

Right now I am struggling about why the heck the camera isn't being recognized, and also there's an item missing support in the device manager list. Still trying to figure out what the heck that is.

There's also one thing that kind of disappointed me: it DOES NOT has a PCI Express slot which I THOUGHT it has. Well not a deal breaker, not something that will keep me from buying the device but it still suck.

Update: Finally found the "missing driver". It's the "Energy_Management". Installed it and then energy saving mode seem to work, and the missing driver disappeared. Also the webcam actually works if I use it in Skype. The key is that I may need to turn it on by pressing Fn Esc.

Tried the Windows 7 rating. Score is 2.2, but it's mainly because the Processor scored 2.2. The gaming graphic is actually the impressive 5.3 (especially for netbook), and hard disk transfer speed is rock solid 5.6.


Finally, I need to install these software:

iTune 9
Microsoft Office 2007
FastStone Photo Viewer
KM Player

So far I am enjoying this bad boy.