How to reinstall DELL Windows Media Center Edition 2005 without DVD?

[Majestic]

Hi,

I have a client who by the idiocy of DELL was recommended to get a Raid Stripe 0 and one drive failed. Long story short she almost lost everything. They sent a 3rd party technician to her place to replace one of the drives but she has misplaced the dell CD. So he replaced the drive and re-established the raid and that was it. The computer was running Windows Media Center 2005. Obviously she has a legitimate serial number and etc..

I've tried to install Windows media Center OEM, Retail, (off the 9 in 1 Windows XP SP2 cd) and I even have an image of a supposed Dell Media Centre SP3 disc. None of these worked.

Short of ordering a new disk from dell is there anything I can do to get the serial # to work? I've read articles in the past on the setupp.ini but have yet to modify any of that then reimage.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Majestic

 

[Menaice]

I would just break down and get the cd's from dell Once you have thous cd's Make a copy for yourself for future cases like this. Have her pay for the cd's of course. Good luck with it

 

[MHCG]

I downloaded a generic OEM MCE 2005 torrent and it has worked fine for me multiple times in the past.

 

[geekhelp4u]

If you have time, I can upload an ISO tonight and send you the link tomorrow...

The 9in1 disk uses the 2002 Install - this won't work on a dell

 

[Majestic]

If you have time, I can upload an ISO tonight and send you the link tomorrow...

The 9in1 disk uses the 2002 Install - this won't work on a dell

ahhh... Yes I would appreciate it! My client gave me her system and she's out of town until Wednesday where she expects it to be ready so unfortunately I can't even reach her to order the dell cds..

Let me know.

I didn't know the 9 in 1 uses the 2002 install but I did notice there's a new 9 in 1 that's sp 3 integrated. Not sure if that would work?

Thanks..

Majestic

.. And if anybody else knows a faster solution please let me know as well..

 

[geekhelp4u]

if you trust torrents ill pm you a link to the disk

if not - you can wait till i get my copy uploaded

 

[Majestic]

if you trust torrents ill pm you a link to the disk

if not - you can wait till i get my copy uploaded

If you could I would appreciate it. Please PM it.

I just had the weirdest issue. I thought I found a good version of Windows MCE that would work with the serial # on the machines sticker. So I put it in a virtual machine, installed it, changed the serial with Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder. It worked.

Well I burned the image and installed it physically on the machine. It installed perfectly but when I went to change the serial number I was told it was an invalid serial number by the exact same magical jelly bean version (1.5b3 in this case). So strange??

Thanks

Majestic