[jyl]

So, how would I go about replacing the HDD with a SSD, given I don't have a Windows O/S DVD and the netbook doesn't have a DVD drive?

I was thinking something like this:
- Buy internal 2.5" SSD drive for $140, and get the cheapest external USB HDD drive (actually I have one laying around)
- Disassemble external drive, remove HDD from the external drive shell, replace with SSD, to get an external USB SSD
- Load Carbon Copy Cloner on the netbook
- Use CCC to clone the netbook's existing HDD including the MBR to the external USB SSD
- Disassemble the external drive shell, remove SSD from the external drive shell
- Physically replace netbook's HDD with the SSD
- The netbook should start up and boot from the SSD, all O/S, apps, settings, data, etc should be and act as if nothing was changed.

Sound right? Is there a simpler way?