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Need help with installation of Tablet PC 2005

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mocat5

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I had to wipe the Tablet out and start fresh after a crash in hardware. I have this disk for installing what seems to be windows XP Pro SP2 and the 2nd disk I have is the components disk for Tablet PC.
I lost the original cd's and so had got a copy of the OS from a friend. I installed the 1st disk (which tells me in the system properties to be XP Pro SP2). I now need to install the Tablet part of the install to make it functional again as a tablet.
I did some reading on Microsoft' s website but it didn't really answer my questions (and too confusing for me).
I just wondered if there was someone who could help me out so I can get using the machine for teaching purposes (why I bought in the 1st place) and avoid any more delays.

If someone can help me I would greatly appreciate it. I might even pay someone to help me out.
Thanks
 
Heyya!

Make sure you have the drivers for your particular tablet, and install them right after you put the OS on.

And if your tablet was anything like mine, I'd suggest doing the full reformat of the hard drive during the install. I could never get mine to work right till I did that.
 
I have all the drivers downloaded on to a cd. Do I install them before I do the installation of Tablet PC 2005 or do I do them after? I am trying to follow this set up using "sysprep" that I found while reading Microsoft's website.
If anyone can help me out, please let me know
Thanks
 
Tablet installation is dependant on the key. If it didn't prompt you to put CD2 in the drive during setup, you used a standard XP Pro PID, and not a Tablet PID.
 
When I was installing the 1st time it asked me for the cd-key and I typed in the number that came with my tablet (I assumed it was the Tablet OS cd-key). I even tried to reformat once again and do this again but still the same issue.
How can I change this? Do I need to buy some software?
Thanks for the help and hope I can get this running soon.
 
When I was installing the 1st time it asked me for the cd-key and I typed in the number that came with my tablet (I assumed it was the Tablet OS cd-key). I even tried to reformat once again and do this again but still the same issue.
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Strange, it isn't acting like a Tablet PID. You can't install the tablet components on top of XP Pro. They need to installed during setup, when prompted for CD2.

Also, you would not see XP Pro on the system properties, it should XP Tablet Edition.

Also, if you have Tablet Edition installed, you should see the tabtip.exe process in the processes list.
 
How can I buy another copy of Tablet PC 2005? I have never been able to find one for sale. Can I buy directly from Microsoft and just download it?
I keep thinking this is the issue and my copy is no good.
Thanks for the help. Any more advice would be greatly appreciated.
 
I would talk to your OEM first. If you bought the machine from them, it should've come with a Tablet key.

No, you can't buy it from MS and download it.
 
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