However, some users have had success using a Windows XP SP2 upgrade disc by attaching an external optical drive and placing the old (Windows 2000, NT, or other) disc in it. MacFixIt reader Ovaz ...

Even if you succeed, Windows doesn't boot well from read-only media like CDs.<BR><BR>For a bootable Windows CD, you want to look into WinPE, also available in customized forms such as BartPE.

I mentioned before that you could create an MS-DOS boot disk in Windows XP. Several readers have asked about the procedure, so here it is.

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 just did a fresh install of Windows XP SP3 on my Boot Camp partition, and installed Boot Camp 2.0 (then upgraded to 2.1) after the Win XP SP3 install.<BR><BR>It worked fine.

My first attempt at this was to simply load XP on the disk as usual, and then boot the Ubuntu installation disk and see what it did. It came up and offered to preserve XP in its current partition ...

In the April, 2010, issue of PC World, and back in December here at the old Hassle-Free PC Blog, I explained how Windows 7 users can use built-in tools to create a system-repair disc –an ...