abe
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i belive he works for a goverment agency, probably a sewer plant or the sanitation department.
Use XP Home editiion VS XP Media Editiion?
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angry_geek
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Back to the op's question. Media Center is based on Pro. The product key triggers the media component installation. If you use a pro disk to do a repair install, you will need the PRO key in order for it to work. Doing this will wipe out media center; you'll be left with a pro installation. If you buy a pro upgrade or retail copy, you will be legal. The best thing to do is get a media center disk set and use that to do the repair install. How you get the disk is up to you. You should also check into various partnerships with MS. Through one of my subscriptions (can't remember which), I have all the various images I need. I use the customer's keys when I need to do an install. If they don't have the coa, I do what I can without an install. I never use a key they have handwritten on a disk or napkin or something. Better to upset a customer than piss off ms and get sued. Besides, if that customer ever gets ****** at you, all they have to do is call 800 RU LEGIT and say so and so installed a bogus os on my pc.
As for Mr Boyd: I'm not going to question his credentials as he has not really posted any. He is pretty correct on most things, but wrong on some. According to one of my client's (an assistant US attorney), telling someone how to circumvent wga or other stuff is not necessarily a crime. Remember when SONY bragged about Blu-Ray being unhackable? It took less than 24 hours to shut sony up. The information to do this is not illegal. It's what you do with it that makes it illegal. According to some threads of logic, having a car that goes faster than the speed limit would be illegal. Thank goodness that I'm not breaking the law until I'm actually speeding. Other examples apply as well, but you know Homeland Security and all. I enjoy reading his posts and hopefully gaining valuable info from or debating them. Don't go away Jim. No drama here.
As for Mr Boyd: I'm not going to question his credentials as he has not really posted any. He is pretty correct on most things, but wrong on some. According to one of my client's (an assistant US attorney), telling someone how to circumvent wga or other stuff is not necessarily a crime. Remember when SONY bragged about Blu-Ray being unhackable? It took less than 24 hours to shut sony up. The information to do this is not illegal. It's what you do with it that makes it illegal. According to some threads of logic, having a car that goes faster than the speed limit would be illegal. Thank goodness that I'm not breaking the law until I'm actually speeding. Other examples apply as well, but you know Homeland Security and all. I enjoy reading his posts and hopefully gaining valuable info from or debating them. Don't go away Jim. No drama here.
abe
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not familiar with media edition but if it has the i386 folder build an install/repair cd using it. and a boot sector from any other win xp install disk
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Well this is just a thought..
Why not just take the time to go get a Media Center CD?
For future references as well..
Why not just take the time to go get a Media Center CD?
For future references as well..
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MCE is basicly XP Pro but they do some tricks with it such as you can not join a domain, except when you set up windows for the first time. It is different but closer to XP Pro then Home anyhow for a repair not sure safe bet is going to be finding and using an MCE CD. I have an OEM copy but I don't really have any way to get you a copy of the image if I wanted to do so.
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