Re: install oem version of XP Mediacenter 2005

If you are not being prompted to insert the second CD in the set, then you are not using a Media Center CD key.

You start the install from the first CD. You'll be asked to put in the second CD. After that part is finished, you'll be prompted to insert the Windows XP Service Pack 2 CD (this is the 1st CD).

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"rindi" <rindi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:C95D6412-B8E3-464C-91CA-640B5662B34A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I can't properly install XP Mediacenter. After having finished installing the
first CD I have XP installed OK. There is no media center button etc. So I
try installing extra options by running setup from the HD (I copied all 3 CDs
to the HD so that whenever any new option is needed I won't have to go
looking for the CD). I select the sonic software, the digital media stuff and
the .net framework. This seems to install, but there is some meaningless
error message where I can only select OK. The installation finishes without
any further errors. I look in the programs and only see the digital media
stuff and the .net framework installed, but still no media center button or
sonic software installed. I looked at the contents of the 2nd CD, and
extracted what was in the mediactr.cab file (don't remember if that was the
exact name of the file) and looked if there was any setup software in there,
but couldn't find it. The media center executable was there and a lot of html
files. If I start the media center executable a wizard opens and eventually
it checks the internet connection, and then an error 3 shows up. When I try
to install the exe file on the 3rd CD, I get an errormessage that XP
Mediacenter needs to be installed for that file to run...

Can anyone tell me how to get the media center software completely
installed? Thanks for your help.


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