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reinstall MCE on a prebuilt machine

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mdetz

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This is the first prebuilt machine I've bought in years. It ships with a recovery partition, and instructions on making recovery discs. I made the recovery discs (it wanted 2 dvds or 15 cds!) and went through the reformat/recovery process. All that did was put the same crap back on it that I wanted to remove in the first place. No option to just reinstall windows. anyone know how to do this?
 
It seems to me that, basically, it just recovers what they originally put on your system from scratch. You don't have an actual OS install disk. You best bet is to either get an OS install disk, or just remove the crap manually, and maybe try to clean out the registry (if it bothers you that much).

Sorry, you're f00ked.

Unless you can somehow creat your own install disk. Is there an i386 folder somewhere on the disks created or on your HDD? I wouldn't really know where to go from there though.
 
Nothing you can do but use the "Add or Remove Programs" from the Control Panel.

Make sure that you didn't lose your MPEG2 decoder in the OS re-install. I've seen people play with their OEM MCE 2005 install and end up losing the factory-supplied MPEG2 decoder and can't play DVDs anymore. (They have to buy an MCE 2005-compatible decoder).
 
I heard that you can actually call HP and ask them for a copy of windows to reinstall (say your HD is damaged) They might charge you $10 or $15 like dell does.

You could always find a way to download it and just use your own KEY.
 
Some vendors may sell you an OS-only recovery disk. It never hurts to ask. Be sure to ask for it BEFORE your original warranty expires. After that, you may find you can't get a disk at all. Or will be charged an exhorbitant fee for that disk.
 
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