Re: XP cd will not boot? Trying to get rid of Vista

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Thank you both for the feedback - and very sorry for not stating that the
discs was bought by my as part of setting up my own media center - the discs
are OEM discs and I use disc 1, which is the boot disc.

I am thinking that something is messing around with the booting of the xp
disc - and perhaps I would have to find a way to wipe my c: drive completely
from everything on it... however, I am using NTFS... any ideas on how to wipe
everything? and write a MBR ready for xp?


"David B." wrote:

Not necessarily correct, and I can say I never seen that behavior, the BIOS
generating the press any key to boot from cd message on EVERY boot, even
without a bootable cd present.

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"Jaime" <jaimelobo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The "Press any key to boot from CD" has nothing to do with the CD, that
message is generated by the PC hardware boot loader. You could have a
blank CD in the drive and that message would appear.

Depending on the exact XP MCE copy you have, the disks probably will be
called "XP Media Center Edition Disc 1 and 2" and you should have a folder
named "I386" on the boot disk. The second disk should have a folder called
"CMPNENTS" with a subfolder called "MEDIACTR"

If that is the one you are using, is this a purchased copy of MCE or one
that came with a specific PC (pre-installed)?
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"Tom" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks for the feedback - I am sure that it is the correct cd - it does
give
me the "Press key to boot from cd"....

"CSM1" wrote:

"Tom" <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Here is the deal. I have a media center running Vista Premium box -
however,
my system gets beaten by Vista so I have decided to revert to XP MCE -
and
I
am thinking "that's easy"... guess not... what I do is this:

I make sure that my DVD drive is primary boot device, and insert my
bootable
XP cd - when the "Press any key to boot from cd" appears, I press any
key -
and it seems that the system acknowledges and I can hear the cd
spinning
in
the drive - however at some point it stops... and I am left with a
blank
black screen with a white cursor blinking in the top left corner.

I have tried two different xp cds, but the same result - if I insert
my
Vista cd, I can get through the boot sequence without problems - so
the
dvd
drive is working ok.

Could there be a problem with the MBR? I have run the bootexc.exe from
Vista
to try and fix any errors - but that has not helped... I am stuck, I
guess...
any hints?

Are you sure you are trying to boot from the correct CD?

Window XP Media Center with Rollup 2 has three CDs. Only one is
bootable.

The one that says Windows XP Media Center Version 2005 Disk 1.
The updates disk does not boot.

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