Using a Windows XP upgrade CD The Boot Camp installation instructions claim that a valid full Windows XP SP2 disc is required and that upgrade discs cannot be used ...

For a long time, Microsoft didn’t sell Windows install media in the form of bootable USB flash drives. Instead, it prefered to stick to old-school DVD media, despite the fact that many notebooks today ...

I haven't seen this really talked about much elsewhere, so I thought I'd share my experience. I just did a fresh install of Windows XP SP3 on my Boot Camp partition, and installed Boot Camp 2.0 (then ...

I installed Windows XP on an SCSI drive. The system boots fine when the XP disc is in the CD, but not when I remove it I get the old "Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk and Press Enter" message.

There is an independently posted method for slipstreaming the Windows XP SP2 upgrade to a normal Window XP (grafting the update to the original disc to create a full Windows XP SP2 installation).

Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...

You'll need to use a startup CD to boot up your computer and run diagnostics if you have a problem booting from your installed Windows XP operating system – for ...

Solid state memory has come a long way in the last few years. So while flash memory modules (including SD cards, Compact Flash cards, 2.5″ SSDs, and the chips that are soldered onto Eee PC, Acer ...

The Windows XP installation CD-ROM includes recovery options on it. When booting from the CD-ROM you can access the recovery console to repair corrupted boot files and scan the hard drive for any ...