Windows Media Center

[tonycard]

I have a computer that came pre installed with windows xp media center. Well I needed to reinstall the os so I began installing media with the cd just as I would any normal windows installation. It asked me for disk 2 so I installed switched it out and then it asked me for Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2. I did install xp pro cd I have and I couldnt install the file it was requiring. Sorry if this is in the wrong forum I didnt know where else to post this. So if anybody has installed XP media 2005 from scratch please help me out.

 

[rvnguy]

tonycard,

You must be talking about "MS Media Center 2005", I do not know why they did not include SP2 with this but they didn't.

What they are referring to is a cd that has the expanded ServicePack 2 that was released over a year ago now. Many PC shops have this for free. If you have access to another PC & broadband connection you can download the file, but then you need to expand the \i386 directory and contents and burn this to a CD. You can also order this directly from MS.

Hope this clears this up

rvnguy
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