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 ...

Wow... this really shouldn't be this hard, but it seems ridiculous.<BR><BR>I have a folder containing Windows XP. I need to create a CD that is bootable containing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several days ago, we covered where to download a Windows 10, 8.1, or 7 ISO image file, but a common question is what do you do once the image is downloaded? The answer is make a bootable USB drive out ...

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).

Having bootable media ready can be a real lifesaver when you need to do a clean installation of Windows. Thankfully, it's easy to set that up. There are two main ways to create bootable media for a ...

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 ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

I had 2 partitions. C: was XP pro, and was 98SE which i loaded in first cause i didnt have XP boot disk. Anyways, something happened to 98 and it wouldnt give me the option to boot to it, no problem, ...