Save everything that you want to keep on a burnable CD/DVD or on an external hard drive or flash drive. Formatting and Installing Windows XP 1. Here we’ll teach you how-to reformat a drive from a ...

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 ...

Web site Maximum PC describes how to add the latest service pack and a few drivers (like RAID or SATA drivers) to your original Windows CD to speed up the process of a Windows installation. Although ...

Is this possible?<BR><BR>I have a very stubborn DVD/CD-RW combo drive on a Toshiba 5005-S504 Laptop that refuses to accept any type of CD-R media, but reads DVD-R's just fine.<BR><BR>I am trying to ...

Bootmgr, commonly known as boot manager, is the code that provides your computer with instructions on how to boot into the operating system. If bootmgr is missing from your hard drive, or is otherwise ...

When you're having trouble with your Windows XP computer, often your only solution is to reinstall the entire operating system using a repair install. A repair install restores Windows XP to its ...

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 ...

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 ...