Upgrade Old Computer to Chrome OS for FREE
Upgrade Old Computer to Chrome OS for FREE
Upgrade Old Computer to Chrome OS for FREE
Got an old netbook or laptop that needs a new lease of life? why not install this lightweight Chrome OS and turn your old laptop into a Chromebook. So dust off that old laptop and install Chrome OS CloudReady by Neverware you will be surprised how fast it is. Just follow my step by step installation guide. You can also use this method to How to Install Chrome OS on Vmware and How to Install Chrome OS on VirtualBox
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10.929 -> whatcha guys have another video here for you, in this one?
13.92 -> we going to be taking [a] look at how we can upgrade our old laptop [or] computer [to]
19.09 -> a chrome os for free
21.49 -> So let's take a look at the software that we're talking about if we go to this website here
27.189 -> You'll be at a get your chrome os operating system
31.24 -> You can download the 64 bit or the 32 bit cloud ready as you can see here
37.18 -> done by neverwhere and it's free to download and
41.05 -> I will put the link in the description for you, so first off. I'm gonna download this this is the version we're down for 64-bit
49.09 -> now this is great [for]
51.01 -> computers or older type computers
53.53 -> And that will speed up your computer quite a lot because of it
57.84 -> [II] is the operating [systems] quite lightweight a little bit like Linux really
62.19 -> It's [very] lightweight, and [we'll] had a bit of zip to the older type
66.189 -> computers and laptops
67.84 -> So we'll let this download
69.79 -> And then when this downloads would create our USB flash drive
75.369 -> [ok] so we've got our download file here and [as] you can see it's a bin file
79.14 -> And it slipped so what we need to do is unzip this file
82.259 -> So I'm just going [to] double click on this and as you can see here. We need to remove
86.86 -> this from here
89.049 -> So all I want to do is just copy this and go back one
92.71 -> Just put it back in here
95.259 -> We go, and we'll just let that
99.34 -> extract to this location [and]
102.7 -> [once] we've done that we need to burn this need as you can see it's a bin file and [though]
107.28 -> we will need to use a
108.909 -> Creation tool to create our uSb flash drive now
112.32 -> you don't need a massive flash drive something between 8 to 16 gigabytes will do just nicely and
118.75 -> [the] [Sandisk] has some issues with this and I'll point this out [to] you in a bit when this finish is extracting
128.149 -> Now never point to point out here is you can see the [64-bit] suitable for most computers?
133.48 -> and you can see the 32-bit here is for older computers Netbooks and
139.25 -> also, noted for a certain five models lister you can also
143.48 -> check this out if you want to if you want to make sure that it's a
147.41 -> Compatible real computer so what we want to do is click [on] installation right now
151.63 -> We've got that done and what that's going to do is give us some information here. You can see a uSb flash disk size
159.17 -> Compatibility in Gb so you can see eight and sixteen nannies big
165.11 -> Flash drives will work just the eight and sixteen and you can also see here that some
170.45 -> Sandisk brands will have an issue with [that] so just bear that in mind
174.68 -> Once we've got that we can then move on down to check
178.91 -> Connectivity
179.96 -> You can click on this [and] what this is going to do is give you some information?
183.44 -> Here to make sure that you've passed this test and everything is working fine
189.17 -> Once we've done that we [can] pull this down and then go to build our installer. So we're going to click [on] this
199.01 -> And you can see we've already unzipped our file and though what we'll need to do now is
205.16 -> Get the Chromebook recovery utility so you can see here on this list we can now
211.459 -> Go to that and download [that] you can see it's in
214.94 -> chrome itself
220.16 -> so click on this
223.04 -> and you can see it will pop up here and I will put all this information in the
227.48 -> Description of the video just going to add this to chrome
231.17 -> It's check in and we're going to add the app
237.14 -> And there you go that's now done. Let's just check in here
244.01 -> There we go, and that's the actual tool right here. So what are those click on this?
250.489 -> and
251.66 -> next up, we're going to
254.03 -> Get our flash drive done, and that's already plugged in ready to go
258.62 -> So then you will need a full gigabyte or larger and [we're] going to get started
264.75 -> So what we want to do here next is come up to this little cog ignore this area here
269.6 -> And we want to come up to where the cog ease and we've got to go use local image
275.55 -> Here we want to locate our chrome os
279 -> image bin
280.68 -> Click on this and click open and [D]
283.669 -> You can see now we need to select the media which is our usb flash drive, so I'm going to click [on] this one
291 -> And you can now see we have that selected
294.63 -> Click on continue, and then what we can do here now is click on create now
302.78 -> so that's now completed as you can see you can then remove our media and
308.03 -> Place that into our lap top or [our] old computer and boot to that device. It's going to click done here
315.47 -> So now we need to change your bios boot order to boot to your usb flash drive that you've just created and that
322.25 -> will start to
323.96 -> Install cloud ready now. You can choose your language
327.74 -> I'm just going to use a united Kingdom English and
332.27 -> also select your keyboard layout, which is for me [cani] kingdom and
338.12 -> You can leave the network selected as ethernet if you're on even it if you're not on your own
345.11 -> Wi-Fi, then you need to set that up
347.18 -> I'm using an ethernet here, and I can use the tab key to navigate to continue and push enter now this will download
355.37 -> and install
356.9 -> Chromium it will take a bit of time
359.66 -> So just let that come down, and then once you've got that you should see network
366.919 -> Working, and then that all you need to do now is put in your email account for your gmail for your Google accounts because this
373.51 -> Needs that to log in and then put your password in for that email account
377.6 -> And then click next and you should be logged in to that account, and you should be free free to use the operating system
387.5 -> Again, you just need to choose a logo here. Which is an icon in choose. Where you like?
393.05 -> use your own or you can use I'll just pick this flower click ok and
399.14 -> Then once I've done that you should have the desktop
402.13 -> And it should say howdy whatever your name is and you should be good enough to go there and use
409.4 -> Chrome on your old laptop or desktop or whatever it is you've installed it on you can even install it on VMWare and also
416.69 -> Virtualbox if you want to see those videos let me know in the comment section below
420.979 -> Anyway, I'm going to wrap this one. I'll pick helps you out guys. Hope you enjoyed it
424.21 -> My name is barf and bites a computer's [coda] [ok] thanks again [for] you guys, and I shall see you again in another video
429.77 -> Bye for now
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fukOnhnnAMc