daniel Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Ok heres the Deal i currently have Windows XP Home SP2 installed. I have 1 hard drive with three partitions C:18 Gigs, D:40 gigs and E:130 gigs I bought Windows XP Media Center 2005 SP2 last week, and my question now is.. How should i install it?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzzidom Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Ok heres the Deal i currently have Windows XP Home SP2 installed. I have 1 hard drive with three partitions C:18 Gigs, D:40 gigs and E:130 gigs I bought Windows XP Media Center 2005 SP2 last week, and my question now is.. How should i install it?? I don't know how you should install it, anyway you like really. I however would install it on the empty 130gig partition and retain the other two partitions as, say, music and photo's on one and video's on the other. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdy284 Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 well hopefully, you have just windows & programs installed on your C: partition & All of your music/movies/other files on your D: & E: partitions. If thats the case, just boot off the MCE disk & erase your C:, format it as NTFS & install so...before you do that, how do you have your partitions set up? (do you have it like i described?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 (edited) Well on C i have all programs.. D Games E: downloads and other stuff... should i create another partition out of E and install it there? i dont really want to uninstall this version of windows im not sure if the other one will be able to run all the programs tha ti want. Oh yeah those sizes are the total.. the free amoung of HD left is... C: 5 Gigs out of 18 D: 18 gigs out of 40 E:52 gigs out of 130 Although im getting a new HD in like a month so i will be transfering everything from E to the new drive So is it possible for me to install it on the E: Drive or create a new partition out of it... and install windows oon the new partition"? Edited September 11, 2006 by daniel Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdoggown Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 Media Center will run everything XP Home will run. Media Center is just XP Pro with the MS Media Module. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BionicSniper Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 media center is home with the media module. not pro Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 (edited) ohh.. but is that i dont want to install everything again BTW i just installed a new HD So now the computer is like this C: Programs and Windows D: Games E: Downloads and music F: NEW 155 gigs G: NEW 155 gigs Isnt there a way like to update HOME to Media Center??? If not... guide me through the installation process of media center Edited September 11, 2006 by daniel Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdoggown Posted September 11, 2006 Posted September 11, 2006 media center is home with the media module. not pro Is that new? I admit, I havent sold it since its first release years ago, but MS always made such a big deal about it being Pro during their vists to our Gateway Country Store. Quit being a pansy and install Windows. Put the CD in the drive and reboot, it will tell you to press a key to boot from CD, and then walk you through it. Not hard. Post again if you get stuck for some reason. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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