Recent content by art37

Thanks - I thought as much. The UPG was cheap at the time and it seemed a bargain as I only use Windows for legacy software. Best I hang on to my Windows XP disk then. That said, it does seem daft that the end user has to keep jumping through the same convoluted set of hoops.

Sorry, I may have confused you. Windows 8 to 8.1 via the Store is not the issue. As I have an upg version of Windows 8, it will install on a clean drive but it will not activate as it doesn't see a previous version of Windows. Consequently, I have had to upgrade over XP. As I am the legal owner...

I run Windows 8.1 as a Parallels virtual machine. Earlier this week - after an IMac hard drive crash - I had to re-install Windows. I have both Windows XP pro and a Windows 8 upgrade disk. My question is this. If I have to do this again, is there a workaround that will enable me to install...