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Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005

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I have been trying to reinstall Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 on my Dell XPS Gen 5 computer. Every time I try a clean install and the computer reboots for the first time it comes up with a duel operating system que asking me to choose between XP and Media Center during the boot up. If I select Media Center it boots normally but if I select XP it tells me the OS does not exist.

I am not sure why it is even seeing XP as an OS system option when XP Media Center is what I installed…

Anyone have any ideas why this is happening and what I can do to make it stop asking me which one I want to boot into?

Thanks for your help..

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What kind of OS disk?

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I have been running virtual machines for some time now. I attempted to use a VMWare disk to reformat an XP Dell. I ran into the same problem. I grabbed one of my XP OEM disks and it stopped the first time.

Is the disk OEM or “borrowed” from some where els? From what I’ve seen it can make a difference.

Just a thought.

MBR and what not..

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Well, did you 0 the drive? or just format it when you were reinstalling XPMC?

Go out and look for a zeroing utility that will wipe your whole drive, even the boot sector which houses your MBR. This is most likly why you are seeing XPMC and XP. (XPMC is just XP with the MC app installed and other XP features not installed.. )

http://dban.sourceforge.net/

Boot paths

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Windows XP may be referencing an invalid entry in your boot.ini file. Log on to the operating system that allows you to boot to Windows. At start (lower left corner of the desktop screen), click run and type msconfig. At the boot.ini tab, click check all boot paths. If all are ok, Windows will state that and prompt you to restart. If not, you will be asked to remove the invalid entry. Check the spelling of the os name, delete the invalid entry when prompted and restart the computer. You should be able to reinstall the os at this point.

delete the old one” windows xp”

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go to my computer> right click > properties > advanced > startup and recovery > Edit > delete the line got windows xp not the media center > beware wrong delete can cause you to make reinstall over again

Please try Re-partition of your HDD

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Hello my friend, Please try repartition i mean delete all partitions ( Backup ur important data on anywhere else) of ur HDD and then install a fresh copy of XP Media Center

Boot.ini

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Just type “c:\boot.ini” in Run Dialog box and delete the line containing previous XP entry and add “/fastdetect” at the end of your media center os line and save the file you will not be prompted again to select which os to boot.

Try this

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Go to start, type msconfig in run box, click ok, click on Boot.INI, it will say operating systems, right click on the one that doesn’t work and delete it, that should fix it.

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