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 Vista and Windows 7 DVDs come with System Recovery Options, a comprehensive set of recovery tools used to restore the operating system. While Windows XP SP3 CD doesn't offer the same ...

Odds are your computer came with a recovery disc, a CD with all the programs and drivers that were installed on your PC's hard drive when it was new. And odds are you have absolutely no idea where ...

I am trying to install IIS on a computer that has upgraded to XP pro SP3. It gets to the step asking for the "Windows XP Professional SP3 CD". Well since the upgrade was done through windows update I ...

Microsoft Corp. today finally slapped a “Done” sticker on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and pushed it out the door. The designation of SP3 as RTM, short for “release to manufacturing,” wasn’t much of a ...

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 ...

I had a hard drive failure on my home Windows XP Pro DELL system last week. I decided this morning at about 4AM to rebuild the system as a dual boot with Ubuntu 9.04 on the second partition. The goal ...

Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...

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 ...