Re: Bought new Dell...want to do clean install...

He shouldn't need another copy. When he ordered the machine, he would have
had an option to purchase the MCE DVD for $10. Hopefully he did.

Tom
"Doug Knox MS-MVP" <dknox@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You would need another copy of Media Center 2005, and any proprietary
drivers for the Dell machine. The second "partition" on the hard drive is
your recovery partition. You can use this to restore the applications that
came pre-installed, or put the machine back to its "out of box" state.
There is no way to install just the operating system with this type of
restoration. See your owner's manual or Dell's included help for
information on how to access the recovery partition.

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"nikeair" <nikeair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I just bought a new Dell computer with MS Media Center. I want to wipe out
the computer and do a clean install. I noticed that the computer is
already
split in to two partitions. Is that required for reinstalling, or can I
just
reinstall it on to one partition? If someone can point me to the exact
steps
on doing the complete reinstall, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.


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