Actually that is poor wording on your part as saying “I went directly from XP to 8.1 does imply it was an OS re-installation not that you bought a second computer with a different OS on it. You should have mentioned you bought a second computer. Leaving that out was your first mistake.
LOL, your jumping to conclusions and misreading everything is not my problem, my problem seems to be that are obsessed with me.
You are chewing up real estate with post after post, after post to me, about nothing for no reason.
He said “I went ..”
That means he went, not his computer. Your misreading of his post.