installing windows xp media center edition 2005

So, I asked him 'should I buy a Media Center PC or build?' I had picked out a lovely $2500 system. He is also an expert on all things HD and Media-y. He has more techie stuff than anyone I've ever known, including myself. maybe if someone wants to go over what I could have done wrong in that case, that would be great.My co-worker Krishnan is truly the gadgeteer. But also on that note, I believe I had similar problems previously on the other PC, and I was able to boot into a startup CD, but it wouldn't let me start the XP MCE installation from DOS.

If I can make my MCE 2005 disk bootable, that will help things along VERY MUCH!!Īlso, I tried connecting a floppy, and either the floppy is dead, or there's some other problem, the cables were fine, and connected properly (even tried what I knew was backwards).Īlso, I was thinking I could use my removable USB HDD as a startup disk by formatting it as such through XP, then telling the bios of the motherboard to boot to USB-HDD. Anyhow, I will try a different optical drive to see if any of that makes a difference, but in the meantime, starting from scratch means installing XP Pro first and then installing MCE 2005 which takes up a HELL of a lot of time. This happened earlier, and I installed regular XP, formatting the drive, and starting over again, so it is not a major hardware problem.Īt this point, the one thing that I can think of is that possibly this older 16x Pioneer Slot Load DVD Drive doesn't like my CD-R's much, though I have burned an extra copy, and know for a fact that they work, because this same disk was able to install on my main HTPC.

I will then try to run the XP MCE 2005 disk over that to fix the install, and when it eventually finishes, it will not boot into windows, I get the safe mode or normal startup screen, no matter what I select, my computer just completely reboots. I would try to upgrade, and it would only take me to XP SP2 among other things, I would try a fresh install by opening disk in XP, and I finally got it installed once, but there were errors with almost all of the programs, the Media Center portion wouldn't run at all. I have tried multiple times with various problems. I have problems trying to install XP MCE after that as either an upgrade or as a new install. I can install Windows XP without problem. His business has no use for MCE 2005 of course. Not an OEM disk because it is from a friend's business where he purchases a pack of liscences from microsoft and they supply the software for download from their website. Well I am building a new Home Theater PC and trying to get XP Media Center 2005 installed.

Installing windows xp media center edition 2005