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    Recovery from failed XP to Win8 upgrade/install

    Does not seem that the machine will boot from either the DVD drive or the USB. No idea why this would be the case. The DVD could be bad, but the original XP disk would not boot either. The USB external DVD drive works fine on other computers, and on this computer in other than a boot role. I...
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    Recovery from failed XP to Win8 upgrade/install

    Not sure I want win8 on my primary computer (win7 working pretty well) but I hate to fall too far behind the times. I have several older laptops, and would like to ease into win8. So I started with a ~6 year old laptop running XP, a machine normally used only for data file backup. The win8 DVD...
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