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trying to load XP Professional... Windows XP Medi 06-24-2008
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Posted by Windows XP Medi on June 24, 2008, 11:49 pm
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at Start Up, tries to load XP Professional; then error says it needs a
CD-Rom. I don't have one for XP Professional and don't want it. Dell Tech
says to reinstall my Office XP Media Center 2003 - but my CD is
cracked.....how do I get a new one, or do I have to upgrade? If the latter,
to what?
--
SGC

Posted by Doug Knox - [MS-MVP] on June 25, 2008, 1:06 am
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You need to get a replacement from Dell.

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> at Start Up, tries to load XP Professional; then error says it needs a
> CD-Rom. I don't have one for XP Professional and don't want it. Dell
> Tech
> says to reinstall my Office XP Media Center 2003 - but my CD is
> cracked.....how do I get a new one, or do I have to upgrade? If the
> latter,
> to what?
> --
> SGC


Posted by Eric Baines on June 25, 2008, 7:16 am
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I tend to think that, whatever I buy, 80% of the value is the software. So I
always make at least one copy of the disk(s) and put them in a folder with
all the other disks.

I do find MCE is a bit tempremental. Although it has been fairly stable for
a while now, the first year I had to reinstall afresh every 2-3 months.

I keep thinking that it would be a good idea to buy a disk image program
(like Acronis -
http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/?source=uk_google&ad=drive+imaging&s_scid=disk%20image|947361234&gclid=CM3rjJi8j5QCFRMXQgod9FUfgQ
), so once I have a stable setup, I can just go back to that, without having
to do the whole rebuild thing.

"Doug Knox - [MS-MVP]" wrote:

> You need to get a replacement from Dell.
>
> --
> Doug Knox, MS-MVP Windows Media Center\Windows Powered Smart
> Display\Security
> Win 95/98/Me/XP Tweaks and Fixes
> http://www.dougknox.com
> --------------------------------
> Per user Group Policy Restrictions for XP Home and XP Pro
> http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/xp_securityconsole.htm
> --------------------------------
> Please reply only to the newsgroup so all may benefit.
> Unsolicited e-mail is not answered.
>
> > at Start Up, tries to load XP Professional; then error says it needs a
> > CD-Rom. I don't have one for XP Professional and don't want it. Dell
> > Tech
> > says to reinstall my Office XP Media Center 2003 - but my CD is
> > cracked.....how do I get a new one, or do I have to upgrade? If the
> > latter,
> > to what?
> > --
> > SGC
>
>

Posted by Nigel Barker on June 25, 2008, 9:43 am
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:16:00 -0700, Eric Baines

>I tend to think that, whatever I buy, 80% of the value is the software. So I
>always make at least one copy of the disk(s) and put them in a folder with
>all the other disks.
>
>I do find MCE is a bit tempremental. Although it has been fairly stable for
>a while now, the first year I had to reinstall afresh every 2-3 months.
>
>I keep thinking that it would be a good idea to buy a disk image program
>(like Acronis -
>http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/?source=uk_google&ad=drive+imaging&s_scid=disk%20image|947361234&gclid=CM3rjJi8j5QCFRMXQgod9FUfgQ
>), so once I have a stable setup, I can just go back to that, without having
>to do the whole rebuild thing.

Even better I can personally recommend a Windows Home Server which will
automatically back up every system in the household every night (8 PCs in my
case). Any files in the backups can be easily accessed if they have been
deleted or are corrupt. In the worst case just need to boot from the restore CD
& re-image the PC back to the previous day's state when it was working.
--

Cheers

Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur
MCE MVP

Posted by Jaime on June 25, 2008, 8:24 am
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MCE is Windows XP Pro, you would have two discs (if you have MCE 2005) --
one marked something like "Windows XP w/SP2", the other would say Media
Center.

There is no such thing as "Office XP Media Center 2003".
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey"), Florida

> at Start Up, tries to load XP Professional; then error says it needs a
> CD-Rom. I don't have one for XP Professional and don't want it. Dell
> Tech
> says to reinstall my Office XP Media Center 2003 - but my CD is
> cracked.....how do I get a new one, or do I have to upgrade? If the
> latter,
> to what?
> --
> SGC


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