MCE Install

[Seekermeister]

I just installed MCE, and it seem to go by par, until it asked for the second disk during the copying files phase. It never progressed at all and finally opened a dialog asking for WMICVALU.XSL in the i386 folder. I browsed to the CD and found three folders...MEDIACenter, NET something and TABLETPC. Selecting the i386 in each of these kept producing another dialog that the file was not found. When I cancelled out from the dialog, it immediately asked for the first disk again, apparently without installing anything from the second disk. From all appearances, it seems that what I ended up with is simply the regular XP X32.

Does this indicate that the second disk is defective, or that I did something wrong?

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: Seekermeister
I just installed MCE, and it seem to go by par, until it asked for the second disk during the copying files phase. It never progressed at all and finally opened a dialog asking for WMICVALU.XSL in the i386 folder. I browsed to the CD and found three folders...MEDIACenter, NET something and TABLETPC. Selecting the i386 in each of these kept producing another dialog that the file was not found. When I cancelled out from the dialog, it immediately asked for the first disk again, apparently without installing anything from the second disk. From all appearances, it seems that what I ended up with is simply the regular XP X32.

Does this indicate that the second disk is defective, or that I did something wrong?

Did you actually see this file " WMICVALU.XSL " in any of these i386 folders? The disk may be corrupt ( depending on where you got it . has your install got a listing under the start menu for the " media Center "?

pcgeek

 

[Seekermeister]

No, in fact, instead of seeing folders, it only showed text, but I could not go inside of these. I got the disks from PC Club and they were properly packaged by MS, so if the disk is corrupt, MS did it. I'm going to have to reboot to see about the start menu, but I think that I would have noticed if there was anything new.

 

[Seekermeister]

Media Center is not on the Start Menu, so it is obvious that got skipped. Assuming that PC Club will exchange disks for me, will I have to reinstall everything for MCE to function properly, or can I install it now somehow?

 

[loup garou]

I would do another clean install with your replaced media, who knows what else could have been messed up on those disks?

 

[Seekermeister]

I've been looking a bit farther, and I tried to view the contents of the CD with PowerDesk (file manager), and instead of displaying, it opened another window in Windows Explorer. I could see alot of files, but none that appeared to be capable of installing anything. When I closed the W. Explorer window, I could not see these files with Power Desk, regardless of how I tried. I ran a search for WMICVALU.XSL with the Windows search and it found nothing. I realize that I should just give up, but I keep feeling like I'm missing something, and I don't want to keep making the same mistake.