Well I am building a new Home Theater PC and trying to get XP Media Center 2005 installed.
I cannot get the MCE 2005 Disk to boot. It is a legal copy. 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. His business has no use for MCE 2005 of course.
The XP disk will boot properly. I can install Windows XP without problem. I have problems trying to install XP MCE after that as either an upgrade or as a new install. I have tried multiple times with various problems. 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 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. This happened earlier, and I installed regular XP, formatting the drive, and starting over again, so it is not a major hardware problem.
At 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. 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.
If I can make my MCE 2005 disk bootable, that will help things along VERY MUCH!!
Also, 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).
Also, 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. 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... maybe if someone wants to go over what I could have done wrong in that case, that would be great.
Any help very much appreciated!!
I cannot get the MCE 2005 Disk to boot. It is a legal copy. 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. His business has no use for MCE 2005 of course.
The XP disk will boot properly. I can install Windows XP without problem. I have problems trying to install XP MCE after that as either an upgrade or as a new install. I have tried multiple times with various problems. 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 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. This happened earlier, and I installed regular XP, formatting the drive, and starting over again, so it is not a major hardware problem.
At 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. 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.
If I can make my MCE 2005 disk bootable, that will help things along VERY MUCH!!
Also, 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).
Also, 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. 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... maybe if someone wants to go over what I could have done wrong in that case, that would be great.
Any help very much appreciated!!
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