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Originally Posted by Matty_

Possibly try installing from a USB. XP guide http://en.kioskea.net/faq/3065-insta...from-a-usb-key

Vista/7 guide http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-in...working-guide/

Hopefully someone else might be able to offer some other advice.

Good luck...

Somehow I was unable to boot from USB. It gave the option of sd/mmc. My SD card was actually a micro sd in an sd adaptor, I used an SD card reader and applied the USB method to have xp on there. I also tried the w7 usb method.

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Originally Posted by ZrByte

Can you connect the one with the broken screen to an external monitor? If you can could you try the install on that one? Could be a faulty SATA controller on Netbook X? If that works you could simply swap the screen from Netbook X and put it on Netbook Y instead of swapping the drives.
Also worth looking in the BIOS for SATA controller modes. If you can change it from AHCI to IDE or legacy it should solve your problem. Not ideal since it will be a tiny bit slower but that's the only real downside.

Havn't tried the external monitor. Will do that asap.
I did look around for SATA options but can't remember seeing much. Will have a look and will update you.

The webbook has a VIA chip, could that make it a bit more difficult?