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 ...

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).

I have two Dell computers here—one running Windows 2000 and one running Windows XP. The XP machine is old and broken down, so I'm going to gut it for parts. I have the Dell-branded Windows XP ...

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 ...

Next time you wipe your PC's hard drive clean and reinstall Windows with that old installation disc, you don't want to connect your fresh, unpatched and vulnerable system to the internet only to ...

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 ...

Windows comes with a built-in repair environment called the Recovery Environment. Unfortunately, it is possible for the recovery environment to become inaccessible. The same tools can be accessed by ...

Hello.<BR>My XP SP1 runs for a couple of years off a Western Digital ATA100 disk. There are 3 disks in total in this system split in multiple partitions.<BR>Trying to refresh XP from the CD, it set up ...

Reformatting a hard drive erases all of the information on the disk and recreates the file system architecture that is responsible for organizing data on the drive. Most malware can be removed using ...