Installing Media Center 2005

Darshan Mehta

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Mar 4, 2005, 9:45:06 AM3/4/05

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I recently purchased Windows XP Media Center 2005.
I want to install it on a computer that is completely formatted.

The Media Center installation is on 2 discs.
When I put Disc 1 in the drive and boot this computer,
It starts the Windows Installation.
Soon it asks me for Disc 2 than Windows XP SP2.

Windows XP SP 2?? This cd was not included in the Box.
I did have a SP2 dic from the Action pack,
but the installation refused that disc as the 1 it wanted.
Frustrated, I clicked Cancel the SP2 installation and moved on.
After the Install completed, Eplore.exe was missing half the DLL's
and nothing seemed to work after that.

Can anyone please giude me to a web page
that has all the installation steps listed?

If not, can you help me out here??

Any help would be appriciated.

Thanks in Advance,
Darshan

George Evans

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Mar 4, 2005, 9:59:46 AM3/4/05

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Been a while since I installed MCE but I believe when it asks you for SP2,
you put in the MCE Disk 1 and it will finish the install.
George

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Chris H.

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Mar 4, 2005, 10:22:27 AM3/4/05

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George is correct, just revert back to the first CD. It is a poor choice of
wording, and a question we've probably answered 100 times in this newsgroup.
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Chris H.
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Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
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Mike Brannigan [MSFT]

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Mar 4, 2005, 10:49:54 AM3/4/05

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The first disk of the MCE 2005 CD set is actually a standard Windows XP
(integrated) SP2 CD. The product key you enter triggers the request for the
MCE component CD (or a TabletPC component disk if you used one of those keys
etc). So when it returns from the disk 2 portion it asks for the XP SP2
CD - which is what your first disk is and what the whole setup process is
being run from.

This is the generic nature of the OEM products that were never intended to
be used by home users.
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Darshan Mehta

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Mar 4, 2005, 11:47:07 AM3/4/05

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Thank you guys so much.
I will probably send a complaint to Microsoft about this.
It is a serious problem, almost lost 1 night of sleep over it.

Thanks again.

Michael Earls

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Mar 4, 2005, 3:51:37 PM3/4/05

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Put disc 1 back in the drive. It's a bad dialog.

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Michael Earls

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Mar 4, 2005, 3:54:59 PM3/4/05

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As Mike suggested, this is an OEM product. Since you are not an OEM, I
wouldn't recommend sending complaints as Microsoft never intended end users
to install this OS. You agreed to this type of behavior when you opened the
CD from the Action Pack.

Plus, Microsoft knows about the problem already. Sending complaints will
only waste time. Start a blog and complain there. ;)

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Mike Brannigan [MSFT]

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> Put disc 1 back in the drive. It's a bad dialog.
>

Not really a bad dialog - it is the correct dialog just not interpreted
correctly due to end users not entirely being aware of what the install
mechanism is for this OEM product.

( as you say in your other post - a product for OEMs ;-) )

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Michael Earls

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Sorry, it slipped.

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mgg

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>>I will probably send a complaint to Microsoft about this.
It is a serious problem, almost lost 1 night of sleep over it.<<

Complain all you want. Since you are not an OEM, and did not buy a
configured machine from a legitimate OEM, you are entiltled to exactly
*ZERO* support. Be glad that groups like this exist and can help.

--Mike

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"Michael Earls" <mea...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Put disc 1 back in the drive. It's a bad dialog.

If you have dual optical drives put both disks in the machine, when you get
the prompt or the second disk point the installation to the second disk in
the second optical drive. You won't have to doi anything afterwards.