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Posted by Tom1973 on May 21, 2008, 10:00 am
Please log in for more thread options Thanks for that - yes, I realise the legality issue but, hey, desperation,
and all that!
It looks like I am going to have to delve into the recovery partition,
then?? A pain, to say the least.
Suffice to say, I don't use system restore - I find it takes up too much
system resources and consumes swathes of drive space if it isn't
micro-managed. But that's just me...
Cheers...
"Jaime" wrote:
> XP Media Center is actually XP Pro, so Media Center to Home would not be
> considered an "upgrade", you would have to do a clean install. However, your
> XP Home license belongs to your desktop and can not be reused on another
> system anyway.
>
> Actually you probably physically can't do it anyway, depending on the brand
> of the desktop, the copy of Home is probably "branded" and can't be
> installed on another system.
> --
> James
> Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Apologies if this repeats an existing question - I've had a browse through
> > and can't find one.
> >
> > However, I have installed XPSP3 on my Vaio laptop running XP Media Centre
> > Edition (SP2 to the best of my knowledge) having been prompted to do so by
> > Windows Update and having successfully done so on my desktop PC.
> >
> > However, I discovered that I could no longer connect over Ethernet to my
> > desktop, nor could I connect with any of my Bluetooth devices.
> >
> > I looked in Device Manager and it is blank - not even an entry for
> > motherboard or CPU!
> >
> > It looks like all the drivers have gone but fortunately backed up the
> > driver
> > cache to DVD when I bought the Vaio so I could free up the HDD space.
> > However, as I've been trying to reinstall them it looks more like they are
> > all still there. Perhaps this is a registry issue?
> >
> > Additionally, Add New Hardware does not find any new hardware but using
> > the
> > Have Disk option allows it to see, say, LAN drivers in the .inf file.
> > However, there are a lot listed and I've no idea which one is in the
> > machine!
> > Being a Sony there's no paperwork with it beyond a brief Getting Started
> > guide.
> >
> > I have run Vaio Update and it has updated some drivers and said it can't
> > update some others (including LAN). I have run driver installs that come
> > with
> > a setup file but, in the case of the Bluetooth, it gets so far and asks me
> > to
> > connect the BT device and click OK, with this request repeated if I click
> > okay. Well, the BT is built in and switched on, so...
> >
> > The same with the wireless LAN driver - it installs but there is still no
> > wireless LAN.
> >
> > I contacted Sony Support and they've said that it is a SP3 issue.
> >
> > Will uninstalling SP3 fix this (can't see how but you never know your
> > luck!)
> > or am I going to have to fall back on the recovery partition and basically
> > start again as if the machine was out of the box, reinstalling all my
> > applications and so on?
> >
> > Alternatively, can I use the XP Home installation disk that came with my
> > desktop to put XP Home over Media Centre (don't really make use of the
> > MCE-specific features, so not bothered) as if I was upgrading from say,
> > Win98
> > to XP, preserving my post-factory applications, etc?
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated, thanks.
>
>
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