How can I get the installation software for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005? I have the activation key and only need the install. The disc did not come with my Gateway computer; only the recovery for the OS which is on the hard drive. I want to reformat the drive and have reason to believe that the recovery may be corrupt. I would prefer a disc but a download that I could burn would be fine. I do not know how to use torrent sites and am reluctant to do so due to malware that may be present.
I'm glad you have the site and the ability to share knowledge that can be used not only today but for future visitors. I'm just trying to figure out how to get this computer back up and running. It was a purchase maybe 4 or 5 years ago that was on the showroom floor. Their geek squad reloaded all the software but I only received a disc with drivers and sample programs; the disc I have does not seem to have the OS.
The OS recovery is on the D: partition. I did have up and going after Christmas when I did the recovery reloaded everything. It worked fine until the last Microsoft update that it received and then started it's problem. Here's the problem and maybe you can help.
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It just shuts down all of a sudden, sometimes with blue screen and sometimes not. I approached the problem as if it was a thermal issue, added fans, taken the side off of the case, etc. And this does not help.
After the first recovery, it was stable for about a month, nonstop, never turning the computer off. After the subsequent update, it will shutdown (sometimes restarts, sometimes hangs) after an hour or two or sometimes less. I've tried to system restore to the date prior to the update but the shutdown continues. I was going to try a clean install on a newly formated hard drive but now I hear that even if I get my hands on the OS install disc, the key that I have will probably not work since that key is not assigned to that disc. Any suggestions? Thank you very much. I know a few things about computers but this is way out of my expertise.
All the above is correct - MCE 2005 is only available as OEM (and MSDN) media though with either SLP or Key activation at install. You may be able to create your own disk set depending on what you can retrieve from the drive of the corrupted machine. Because it's OEM you can't normally install it from a retail CD because the CD is missing the OEM files from the i386 folder.
You certainly can't use a volume licence version. - Who is the manufacturer? - Which version of MCE 2005 in installed (look on the CoA sticker on the case & post all the data except the activation Key)? Main Banungi Miss India Serial Title Song. - Can you see a folder called CMPNENTS on the active partition? (This contains all the MCE extensions) - Is there a recovery partition on the drive?