All situations. Installation from floppy disk is the exception rather than the norm these days. Many systems do not have a floppy drive any more, now that USB flash drives, network installations and removable optical media (CD/DVD/BluRay) have become the norm.
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Express upgrade uses existing windows foldersCustom upgrade allows you to change installation folders
which feature of windows xp professional allows you to recover from installing the incorrect driver for a device
any way it is patition that allows it to perform it.
Typical-All the components that are usuallyinstalled. Portable-Installation optionsgenerally required for portable computers. Compact-The smallestpossible installation that installs minimumcomponents. Custom-Allows you to choose which optionalcomponents to install.
You have to use so called SMB server (usually it's included in each Linux installation) which allows to communicate Linux with windows.
Remote Installation Services (RIS)
Windows XP takes drivers only from floppy drives (during installation only). Vista can work with basically any drive. Anyway by the time the system asks you to insert drive with drivers there is software loaded in your RAM which allows you to remove the installation disk... And then put it back.
As I understood, you'd like to preserve the current installation of windows xp while migrating from old computer to a new one. Well, taking into consideration that windows XP allows only 5 bits of hardware to be exchanged (after that it requires reinstall) and that it's very hard to make old WinXP installation to work with a now MotherBoard, there's no way to do so.
in windows Vista, the appearance and personalization option allows you to change the
Apple made Windows available on MacBook Air and MacBook Pro by using Apple’s Boot Camp software. Boot Camp is a utility included with OS X that allows users to partition their hard drives and install a separate operating system. This allows users to dual-boot between Mac OS X and Windows. Boot Camp supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8. When users launch Boot Camp, the software creates a partition on the hard drive, copies the Windows installation files onto the partition, and then restarts the computer into the Windows installation process. Once the installation is complete, users can select between Mac OS X and Windows when they boot the computer. To get a copy of Windows, users can either purchase a retail copy of the operating system or purchase an OEM version from a third-party vendor, such as Microprokey. com OEM versions are cheaper and are tailored for the specific hardware of the MacBook Air and Pro. Once users have a copy of Windows, they can use Boot Camp to install it on the Mac.
All Linux distros have about the same capabilities as far as applications go. The key to playing any Windows games on Linux is the installation of Wine. Wine is a library that allows most (though certainly not all) Windows programs to be run on Linux.