I am giving serious thought to finally upgrading from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 8. I have the ASUS M3A motherboard. First, does anyone know if I can upgrade straight from XP to 8? Or would I need to upgrade to Vista or Windows 7 first, then to Windows 8? Second, I have two 750 GB hard drives as well as a third 3 TB hard drive, all internal. When I installed the 3 TB drive last year, I had to run special software, Seagate Disk Wizard, in order to make the full 3 TB visible to XP. If I upgrade to Win8, will the install magically enable Win8 to see all the data on the 3 TB drive without taking any special precautions? Or will I need to do something first, like backing up all the data, reformatting the 3 TB drive, doing the install of Win8, then loading all the data back on the 3 TB drive? Are there any other gotchas that I should expect while upgrading to Win8? It's not that I particularly want or need Win8 but it feels like it's finally time to retire XP in favour of something from this decade. With support on XP dropping any day now - or is it already gone? - and Win8 being a lot more affordable than Win7, this feels like the right move to make. I'm just trying to anticipate any problems that might come along during the upgrade.