Re: Xbox 360 media center software not installing....

A few more questions:
- How many physical hard drives do you have?
- Which drives are PATA and which are SATA?
- How are they partitioned and formatted? (all NTFS?)
- Which partition is your boot partition?

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"Flounder" <Flounder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Sorry Todd, I had not noticed your post. Thank you for the reply!
>
> I rebuilt my pc using my own copy of XP MCE which is from my MSDN
> subscription. If it helps, I did use this exact same media on an older
> compaq to test the problem. After a rebuild the old compaq worked just
fine
> with the MCE software install. The only other big difference I can think
of
> is the DELL I have has SATA drives and the Compaq has IDE.
>
> When I rebuilt the Dell the first thing I did was run all critical windows
> updates. No other software was installed outside of that. Again, on the
> older Compaq I did the same thing and it worked fine using my media. It
> really appears to be something with this Dell machine but I cannot figure
out
> what it is for the life of me.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> "Todd Bowra [MSFT]" wrote:
>
> > I have not seen this before. The next check that should show up in the
log
> > in the OS version, which I wouldn't expect to fail. I'm looking into
this
> > (forewarning: the person who might know what's going on here is on
vacation
> > until next week).
> >
> > In the mean time, can you provide some additional info on your PC
config?
> > Specifically:
> > - You mentioned rebuilding your PC; when you did this/reinstalled
Windows,
> > how did you do it? (Dell recovery disc, MCE install CD, etc.)
> > - Did you install any software after installing Windows?
> >
> > --
> > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.
> >
> >
> > "Flounder" <ffish3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1135641615.918425.209390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Anyone??????
> > >
> >
> >
> >


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