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Posted by Tom Scales on August 5, 2006, 7:16 am
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You chose a vendor that does not provide XP disks, just a disk to restore
the machine to factory fresh.
They cannot be downloaded.
You have three choices:
1) Return the machine and purchase from a vendor that does provide an XP
disk, such as Dell
2) Just use Add/Remove to uninstall what you don't want and live with it.
3) Purchase a brand-new license for MCE for roughly $120
Tom
>i just bought a toshiba notebook (tonght, in fact) with an installed
> version of windows media center 2005, where the product key is listed
> on the bottom of the notebook. what i want to do is format the drive
> so it is clean and then reinstall windows media center 2005 and the
> bare minimum of software/hardware necessary for use (hopefully you
> understand that what i mean by this is getting rid of/disabling all the
> little windows messenger, extra McAfee antivirus i don't want because i
> like and already have norton, and all the extra dodads that are taking
> up corners on my precious 80 gig harddrive and just plain irritating
> because they are there and unnecessary, for me at least).
> my problem is, i don't have windows installation disks to reinstall or
> initiate the format. i thought they'd be included in the purchase but
> was not, and i'm given the product key on the bottom of my notebook.
> i've tried googling for answers but unable to find the download files @
> microsoft.com
>
> the only software disks i was given were a two dvd set entitled
>
> Toshiba:
> Recovery and Applications/Drivers DVD
> Satellite A100/A105 Series
>
> but they don't seem to have windows installation files on them.
>
> can someone tell me if what i want to do is going to seriously screw
> with my new laptop, or direct me to a page where i can download the
> files i need to reinstall windows media center 2005 after i format my
> drive (where i'll burn them to a disk before hand, of course). i
> already have a desktop with internet access, so i can download
> something there and it's not imperative that i get this all right in
> one shot, but i do hate to have to finesse and finigle (if i can make
> that a word) for 8 hours just to set my comp to my bare minimum
> necessities.
>
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