There are the usual cornucopia of options, and I'm guessing you know enough about Windows installs to get those options correct. This is how you get good install images for Windows 7 or Windows 8. Now, switch over to your modern Windows machine, plug in the USB stick, and point your browser to Microsoft's Create Installation Media page. If you're running an old Windows XP install and need to get it up to SP3, it might take a few more reboots. Key among the lessons learned was making sure Windows XP was updated to SP3 before doing anything else. I went through the Windows 8 upgrade process in some detail in this article: 8 lessons learned from upgrading a dog-slow Windows XP machine to Windows 8. You do a few clicks, and go back to fast cars. But, if you have a bunch of Top Gear reruns to watch, it's not really that bad. I know, it seems like a pain to first upgrade to an earlier version of Windows, and it is. If the process doesn't pan out, here's the longer process using an intermediate OS to take you the distance. If everything works, you can skip the rest of this article. Once you're in the BIOS, make sure you boot off the USB stick. Then keep an eagle eye on the boot screen, because you'll want to hit the magic key that will drop you into the machine's BIOS. Safely remove the drive from your main computer, insert it in the XP machine, reboot. Since I promised that I was avoiding DVDs entirely, here's Adrian's guide to creating a bootable thumb drive from an ISO.
If you're using a helpful, modern machine (anything Windows 7 and above), you can simply right click on the ISO and burn the image to a DVD. To make this work, you'll need to head over to Microsoft's Windows 10 Disk Image (ISO) page and download the ISO. At the time he wrote that, you had to be opted into the Windows 10 insider channel, but he tells me it's now available to everyone. Back in November, he wrote about how you could do a clean Windows 10 install using Windows 7 or 8 license keys. Update: Ed Bott tells me there's a better way than what I described (and did myself) below. This point is probably obvious, but for the sake of completionism, I'm including it. But then again, I use re-watching old Top Gear episodes the way some people use Xanax, so, you know.Īn old machine running Windows XP (or Vista, I guess). I found that re-watching old Top Gear episodes made the time pass more pleasantly. But you have that option.Ī Netflix subscription (optional). I won't be discussing this, because I've done my absolute best to forget DVDs ever existed. If you don't want to go the thumb drive approach, you can burn your Windows image to DVD.
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