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 ...

Windows XP takes up relatively little space on a hard drive and uses fewer system resources than recent versions of Windows. For computers with limited memory and processing power as well as no ...

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 ...

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 an old 500 GB HDD that I'd partitioned into an OS X partition and Win7 partition. I bought a new 750 GB HDD to put in the main drive bay of my MBP and an OptiBay to hold my old HDD. My desired ...

If your budget doesn't stretch to a brand-new PC, why not give your old one a new lease of life by upgrading its OS to Windows XP? Here's how to go about it. Giving an old workhorse PC a new operating ...

If you've read the previous section explaining how to create a new partition using Vista's built-in tools you will undoubtedly notice that the following additional steps are not required in that ...

"Disk Error" appears when attempting to install Windows XP via Boot Camp Occasionally users who are installing Windows XP on their Mac receive a message reading, "Press any key to boot from CD.

Re-sizing partition after Windows XP installation Several users have inquired about modifying the size of their Windows partition after setting up Boot Camp and installing Windows XP. So far, there ...