Re: Converting Win. Media center to OEM XP Professional

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How are you trying to install XP Pro? I assume that you have either reformatted you drive or are trying to install it in a different partition?

"FRANKLIN RICE" <FRANKLINRICE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:678DB563-BF28-4CE3-AB86-BF6E0F86D0A5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i downloaded the driver for xp pro and it did not work. there are drivers
for media center for other video cards, so i assume that the OS are indeed
different enough.

Exactly, i want XP pro installed on my computer, but my media center OS
will not let me. When i try to install the program, windows says that my
passowrd is incorrect. I head that the system may be looking at my new key
and recognizing it as incorrect because it is not the same key provided for
media center. ( the original key the computer currently has does not match
the new key). I hope this helps : )

"FRANKLIN RICE" wrote:

Hello, this has been troubling me for a while. I want to install a video
card that is only compatible with XP Pro, and i have Media Center. I would
greatly appreciate help on how to reformat my computer so that i can run XP
pro ( I have the OEM XP Pro CD). I tried to boot from my cd, from the
start-up options, but i get some kind of error during the proccess. Please
Help : )

.



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