Such a clear and easy video to follow. Thanks for your time in producing the video.

I have a Lenovo Ideapad miix 700 with 8 GB RAM & 256 GB SSD. It was a decent competitor to Surface when it came out a few years back. But it did not qualify for a Windows 11 update as well as becoming sluggish. I decided to make it a chromebook. Someone on social media suggested to install Chrome Flex. Your video was so helpful and instructive to do it. I did not encounter any hitch and now I have a high end Chromebook in place of a sluggish Windows tablet. Thanks once again for putting out this video.

Brilliant. A timely reminder. I was already using Cloudready which has now just become Google Chrome OS Flex. Hope this tutorial helps others give this a try. All the best.

This is really great. I am really very interested in chrome os flex. This could be a much better alternative for older folks that just want simplicity.

Excellent precise instructions David. Nice one!

Excellent video and great that you we’ve very enthusiastic about using the os with an old machine.

Great job ! I recently had to recover a Chromebook using that tool. It took me several attempts. You got it done smoothly. I'm going to try on some of my old laptops. Doing it on a surface tablet is a great use of this application.

This video is so perfect in presenting and audio quality, thanks for the video 🔥❤️

This is brilliant! Fast, secure and effortless.

Thanks for the video, great info. Have an older laptop and i will try this setup.

Thanks Harry, I'm using my old laptop now. Asus 11 inch netbook. Works perfectly fine with chrome flex now I can use it for my work. Very nice. Thanks harry. More power to you.

thank you very much the process was long and daunting and you video simplified it and i actually managed to preform it kudos

Wow! Surface 2 is really old and Chrome OS Flex did give it new life! Good one Dave!

The video was very good and I was able to resurrect my old laptop into a working laptop! Thanks for the presentation it really helped me.

thanks! for the very extensive, clear and excellent tutorial. just upgraded my old Dell Insipiron to Chrome OS Flex

So, In this video I'm doing two things in one and answering two questions. How To Install Chrome OS Flex On A Windows Laptop & How To Turn A Windows Laptop Into A Chrome OS Flex Chromebook. Here's some links to USB flash drives & Chromebooks on Amazon, I personally use SanDisk for important stuff. SanDisk USB Flash Drives geni.us/SandiskUSBFlashDrives Other USB Flash Drives geni.us/USBFlashDrives Chromebooks on Amazon: geni.us/ChromebooksOnAmazon This video has very detailed and easy to follow step by step guide on how to prepare a Chrome OS Flex bootable live USB flash drive which can also be used as a USB installation flash drive, which is wha I'm doing in this video. I also give a very detailed guide on who to actually install Chrome OS Flex and also how to select the USB flash drive as the boot device. I then show a little use of Chrome OS Flex on the Surface GO 2 after its installation. With the release of Google's Chrome OS Flex, we now have a fully legitimate way of installing Chrome OS onto certain Windows laptops and desktops and also certain Mac desktops and laptops. In this example I'm using a Windows laptop/tablet, that being a Microsoft Surface Pro 2. This laptop/tablet is now getting on a bit and does run a bit slow under Windows these days, so is a prime candidate for Chrome OS. After installing Chrome OS Flex onto the Surface Pro 2 it performed amazingly well and was really fast at booting and powering down and also very snappy with the interface. As you can see in the video I looked at a few things as far as the user interface was concerned and also the KZfaq app. The bottom line here is that Chrome OS Flex is easily good enough for most day to day tasks, such as certain social media stuff, video streaming with the likes of KZfaq, music streaming with Spotify etc. and it's also great for writing e-mails and web browsing. Maybe the best bit is that Chrome OS Flex breathes new life into old computers and keeps them going with good purpose. This is especially important for the planet and e-waste and is also an excellent option for those with little money to be able to have a computer and be able to access the internet and keep up to date with global news and to keep in touch with family and friends. You can basically see this tutorial as the solution on how to turn your Windows PC into a Chromebook or how to turn your Windows laptop into a Chromebook. And the same for Mac, how to turn your MacBook into a Chromebook. Here is the link to the Chromebook Recovery Utility, this will work with Chrome on a Windows desktop or laptop and also Chrome on macOS computers such as Apple MacBook and other Mac laptops and Apple Mac desktops such as the M1 Mac Mini and older X86 Intel Mac desktop computers: chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chromebook-recovery-utili/pocpnlppkickgojjlmhdmidojbmbodfm?hl=en Manufacturer Boot key Acer F2 Apple Hold Option (next to the ⌘ key) Asus Del Dell F12 Gateway F1 HP F9 Intel F2 Lenovo F12 Toshiba F2 or F12 Other Try pressing Esc, any of F1-F12 keys, or Enter Here's the chapters for this video: 00:00 Introduction 00:57 Creating the Chrome OS Flex USB flash drive 06:41 Installing Chrome OS Flex first half 10:14 Installing Chrome OS Flex second half 12:55 A quick look after the installation 16:05 End summary Please give a thumbs up, sub, share my videos and click the bell for notifications. Amazon USA: geni.us/Amazon-USA Amazon UK: geni.us/Amazon-UK Amazon Deutschland: geni.us/Amazon-Deutschland Amazon España: geni.us/Amazon-Espana Amazon Canada: geni.us/Amazon-Canada As a KZfaq technology, review and demonstration channel that covers different aspects of video camera and video editing/processing, audio and microphone stuff. It does take a lot of time and money to help keep my channel running and to fund it. If you find my videos helpful or entertaining and would like to help support my channel. Please use my Amazon links when you are buying products from Amazon. Even using my Amazon links to buy products that I have not directly linked to, will help me with Amazon Affiliate income. Affiliate income does not cost you anything extra but it does help to support my channel. My KZfaq equipment & recommendations. Amazon USA amzn.to/3g2Oi3i Amazon UK amzn.to/2ZR6IOV My Amazon Shop links. Amazon USA www.amazon.com/shop/davidharry Amazon UK www.amazon.co.uk/shop/davidharry As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases when you use my Amazon Affiliate links. Contact me for product reviews. KZfaq@DavidHarry.com http//www.DavidHarry.com I’m David Harry. Thank you very much for watching this video, take care and goodbye now. Cheers, Dave. #ChromeOS#ChromeOSFlex#HowToInstallChromeOSFlex chrome os,how to install chrome os,chrome os install on pc,chrome os install,chrome os flex,how to install chrome os flex,how to download chrome os flex

Nice work. Really helpful and clear!

Thanks very much, this was very useful 👍

David, the pace and flow of the video is excellent. Well done! I recently purchased a Chromebook as opposed to another lower-end Windows laptop (to use as a travel laptop) and I was blown away at the power and flexibility of Chrome OS. I don't think MS realizes it yet, but Chrome OS represents serious competition to Windows for casual computer users.

Yes, thanks for a clearly stated procedure for the conversion.

I love his voice, very soothing

Fantastic video!

Great video! Thanks

Thank u David for this video.

Great video. Watched it this afternoon and then just for a laugh I setup Chrome on a stick and booted my 2013 11 inch Macbook Air onto it. It WORKS!! I can't believe it. The only problem I had was with my home wifi (combo 5GHz/2.4 GHz setup that does fool some devices). Got it working with my mobile phone's hotspot all fine and configured my google setup. I am now wondering if I plug into other devices will it reconfigure to those too. Used to carry my Apple setup on a stick that could boot any mac into my settings. Chrome doing the same thing? Could be useful if it does.

Great video!! Thanx!

David, great presentation.

Thank You So much for explaining step by step.. I had no issues while installing... @David Harry... TQSM...

thanks for the information I just installed chrome os flex on to my old HP laptop that has only 32 gig of storage and a 4 gig of ram this OS make new life into my laptop it run very fast and easy to used for school as well thanks as again

i have downloaded it in my 9 year old laptop and works perfectly

Well done! Thank you.

Very helpful.

Qual é o tempo que você teve de esperar até aparecer a tela onde escolhe se quer instalar ou testar ? Estou tentando instalar, mas o tempo está muito longo e não chego nessa tela de escolha.

Thank you very much for this tutorial. Installing Chrome OS Flex on this ancient 2009-2010 Acer Aspire 5534 Laptop breathe life into this machine and save me some funds in the process. The instructions were very clear. This laptop was all set to be recycle. I had already wiped cleaned the hard drive over a year ago and was just procrastinating removing it. I had to reinstall Windows 7, but it is all good now. The only other hiccup I came across worth mentioning was trying to figure out how to move the Scan Disk in the BIOS to the BOOT position , done. I also did an update on the new OS and it is loading fast. I have 207 gigabytes to work/play with, Good Stuff. I have subscribed to your channel.

Oh my god thanks, I have this 2020 asus notebook pc that had windows 10, it was really slow not it’s so quick!! Tysm

Thanked you. 😊

Brilliant, thanks.

Nice info, thank you for sharing it :)

Thanks you so much

Thank you for show about how to install .

Thanks man 😁

Thank you!

Great thank you

Mate loved the video! Subbed too! Now I want to find a cheap Surface 1-3 to try this out for myself! I wonder will chrome os flex get updates vis ota or will you need to update via flash drive or something?

Thanks man ur legend 🖤

Great guide, very detailed. I have an old lenovo netbook, will be a perfect candidate for this one. Google playstore will make it perfect

I'd say Chrome OS Flex would be useful for the $200-$300 laptops like the Gateway, HP Stream, and ASUS L410 which should be running Chrome OS rather than Windows 10/11 since the hardware isn't suited for Windows in mind. The downside of Flex compared to ChromeOS or FydeOS is you don't get Android app support though you can compensate this with an Android phone (such as Samsung or OnePlus), a Chromebook, or Windows 11 if it arrives although it doesn't use Google Play.

Hey David ! Thanks for such a wonderful video. My computer don't boot from the hdd. It crashes when I remove my flash drive. Any suggestions !! 😅

David, can you tell us about the ROM in the laptop? Like is it the inbuilt ssd? What size? If you added a new ssd what brand?

Yes it works very good on old laptop.

Hey bro nice vid just curious how do u install the wifi drivers cuz mine are missing?

Thank you bro, i wanna try it, but i need to install it on a old macbook too.! works it like the same way like for a windows machine.?

Nice thanks. Do you know if you can get ms OneDrive on chrome os? Other than via browser.

Hi David- Excellent video! I appreciate the work you put in it for the public to use. I am interested in installing Chrome Flex OS on my old apple laptop that I haven’t used in a many years. It is a 2004 PowerBook G4, 12” Screen, Processor Speed 1.33GHZ, 200 GB HD and 1.25 GB of memory. Would it work? Thanks in advance for your reply/subscribers/users.

its super helpfull

Thank you so much...❤❤❤

Great video 🙂

Ps thank you for the videos they are very informative

Hey David, thanks for the video. I have installed Chrome OS Flex on my surface 3. But, touchscreen is not working after the installation and the bluetooth cannot be toggled on. I tried via crosh > shell, but it’s not going into configuration mode and I am getting unknown command error. Can you please help me?

Very useful video! Might help to install on a crappy PC.

Hi thank you for the video, I have an issue, after installing the cloudReady 2.0, the laptop are go8ng to shutdown and we need to turn it on after unplugging the usb.. but when I turn my laptop on, it is going into BIOS instead of Chrome.. Do you have any idea how to fix this?

How comes the look of your OS changes up or through you'll start menu changes I've got the new start menu

EXCELENT VIDEO. will it work on 32 bit intel atom laptop?

Great video. I followed your instructions to the letter. But finally, after booting up, all I got was a screen (B&W) reading "chromeOS Flex" followed by a white screen. Your explanation was brilliant, but the software not so much! Correction, i am now in Chrome Flex. It's working! It is slower than my Windows 8.1but I think it will speed up soon. Video quality seems brighter than under windows. Possible?

Trying this on my surface pro one. Fingers crossed.

I do have 2 older laptops that I would like this to install it on! I'm waiting for the full release before installing

Brilliant video, David. I am going to use your directions to install ChromeOS Flex on my Surface Pro 3 which is now out of Microsoft support. Just a couple of questions. Did you have to turn off secure boot? And does the touch screen work?

hi david tried the install with flash drive on a hp pavilion g series after reboot all i get is the chrome screen , then after a min or 2 a blank screen any help with this , i have tried many times ect but same result

Thanks for this. I installed it with no issues, but the only problem I'm having is no audio. Please help, i have an Asus t100ta

Thank you

hey thank for this. one question? can i intall in a old windows 98 laptop, like sony gateway 1998

how to revert the process, like shifting back to windows from chrome os flex, and do I have to put the flash drive always before booting?

Thank you...

Thank you very much, great video, please could you share the iPad Pro support link 🙏🏻

Does the camera work?? Always struggled with camera n wifi on Linux. If camera works, I am giving this a shot

chrome os flex is insane!

Hiya, I made the usb and have ran flex from the usb on my Dell Inspiron 14 laptop, it runs fine so I installed it. It installed fine but when I try boot it up after shut down and remove usb, it just hangs on the opening Chrome splash screen. Any ideas what might be wrong?

Hi David I installed chrome on surface and ended up losing all the drivers, sometimes it works minus the touchscreen and many other keyboard functions. Can i get driver support for my old laptop so i have chrome and all the functions of the old surface laptop. also it takes forever to come on as opposed to a chromebook.

I came here just to enjoy David's wonderful accent.

I installed this on an old Dell Venue windows tablet but i cant seem to get the touch screen keyboard to show. If i can use the touch function on it, why cant i use the on screen keyboard for this?? Is there a way to enable this or i must always use a usb keyboard to type?? No one is talking about this yet it is encouraged to do so on tablets as well.

Nice video, thanks. Installed on my Dell laptop this morning. I was using Thunderbird e-mail but apparently I can't install it on Chromebook? I don't want to use Gmail.

my laptop has 3 Hard disk partitions So I want to install it only on the C hard disk partition. Other hard disk Partition Safe or Not

Can I actually run it as dualboot option on Microsoft surface pro? Will it work?

Hello sir, I've installed chrome os flex on my hp notebook. I wanted to use linux terminal on it which requires developer mode ON but there is no developer option in my settings. I searched on how to bring developer option so that i could use linux terminal but I'm not able to find a way (the way Google show's is using esc+refresh key + power button and then ctrl+d and the chrome book will automatically open into developer option. But mine isn't a chromebook so theirs no refresh key). Please help me with it sir, how can i use linux terminal?

Hello, Harry.....my laptop is not a chrome laptop and I wanted to give Chrome OS flex a try. Can this be done?

Does the surface webcam or windows in-built webcam work in Chrome OS Flex?

chrome os flex, don't have a driver for my network card so idk if you can help me, like what to do, or i just have to use another SO, like linux mint, i have and hp 245 g6 with an E2-9000e 1.50Ghz, thanks

hey i want to know that it will wipe everything from pc or just the one window drive.. example .. my pc is divided in c drive and d drive.. c is the main windows drive.. bit d is consist of my files like picture movies etc . so it will wipe both or just c..

102 gb?? what was the size of your drive before installation

Hi, I just install the ChromeOS flex on my surface pro6, but I can not use the touch screen and also cannot see the battery display, Do you know why???🥺

I had installed Linux (Zorin) in my Windows (Sony Vaio Fit) laptop snd now want to unistsll Zorin and install Chrome Flex. Do I follow the same steps?

Tried it after POST, it just shows the Chrome logo and gets stuck on a blank screen. So, until this is fixed, I'm going to stick with Neverware-Cloudready on Chromium. This is really interesting and I'd love to see them fix this the soonest. Great video, David.

Great video! Thank you. I tried the USB boot option on my old Lenovo Yoga 11s. Really liked Chrome OS Flex. Booting up took a few trial and errors. Using SD card, when it works, it's not stable and crashes often (with built-in card reader or USB reader).... using USB key directly does work better. However, Chrome OS Flex doesn't seem to recognize the built-in wifi module. Tried using an USB wifi adapter I have lying around but didnt work either. My work-around is an USB ethernet adapter because the Yoga 11s doesnt have ethernet built-in. While it works, this work-around is not portable and dependent on available ethernet connection. Also not working is the mic and sound components. I guess the Yoga 11s is too proprietary. Great job on this video nevertheless.

I have 5 year old Acer 30 gb ssd laptop with windows 10 pre installed. I cannot update it as there is no room left at all. How would I be able to work around and install Chrome OS Flex on it if there is no space left on the disk? Thanks.

Will that do on Surface 2 RT??

Can this be installed on an old chromebook to a skirt a passed AUE date?

Any advantage to a small footprint Linux version that also runs snappy fast?

hi Bro, Thank you so much. I install on my surface laptop 1, and the problem is the keyboard is not worked. I cannot login to gmail. could you please help me? Thank you

I'm having trouble getting the image to download. Interested to know if there is a direct URL so I can use the local image option. I did some URL guessing but no luck so far.

A bit late to the part, installed flex on surface three but few things doesn't work. Sound Bluetooth and the touchscreens are gone. Any ideas how to fix it? Ta