Windows Media Center Edition Disk(Help!)

Rock · **Posted:** Mon 02-13-2006 5:34PM

Does anyone have a Media Center 2005 disk that I could borrow. One of my friends has an HP(they don't give you a disk, they do the sys. recovery thing) that he goobered up the system recovery partition on too. So, I need a disc to get him up and running. He has a licence(the sticker with the number) but no stinkin disk. Help!

UrLocalGuru · **Posted:** Mon 02-13-2006 6:35PM

ive got a "disk" it should work fine works for me

LostBoyz · **Posted:** Mon 02-13-2006 7:08PM

i have some as well

Sutherlands · **Posted:** Mon 02-13-2006 8:37PM

The key from the HP shouldn't work with a "regular" media center disk.

LostBoyz · **Posted:** Mon 02-13-2006 9:47PM

i dont see why not, you install with a disk and the correct activation key should get you passed the 60 day trial.

Sutherlands · **Posted:** Mon 02-13-2006 11:13PM

Because the activation key from the HP version uses a different algorithm than the activation keys for a regular disk.

LostBoyz · **Posted:** Tue 02-14-2006 12:39AM

either way i dont think it would hurt

Rock · **Posted:** Tue 02-14-2006 10:29AM

I'm sure a regular media center cd would work.... We just don't have one due to HP's relentless experimenting with not giving you jack crap for actual media in case(heaven forbid) the drive goes out or you inadvertantlly erase files.

I know I've used a 'regular' winxp home cd with my HP laptop's key and others have used my cd with their keys(non-hp compys). I dunno if there is a difference. Possibly there is one between 'oem' licenses and 'retail' licenses; I don't know of anyone who had actually bought WinXp outright to try it though.

CowFuMasta · **Posted:** Wed 02-15-2006 10:44AM

side note - hp gives you a black disc with the system that you are supose to burn a recovery disc onto, its in the manual

CatYourAssToDevNull · **Posted:** Wed 02-15-2006 11:51AM

Is that really cheaper than them doing it themselves?

squishypickle · **Posted:** Wed 02-15-2006 12:24PM

Thats just dumb. Dell does the right thing and gives you a plain Win XP disk, and driver disks, none of the stupid system restore crap.

paulmyers00 · **Posted:** Wed 02-15-2006 1:13PM

CatYourAssToDevNull wrote:

Is that really cheaper than them doing it themselves?

Yes it is cheaper...they just have to send you a blank CD, and the files that are on the HD have just been imaged on there.

Where as, if they sent out a CD with WinXP already on it, they'd have to press each of those discs, which I'm sure would cost much more.

Don't get me wrong...purely for customer support reasons they should spend the extra money for sending out WinXP on a CD, but they don't...

LostBoyz · **Posted:** Wed 02-15-2006 1:16PM

anyway i got the disks if you want them

Agentzak · **Posted:** Wed 02-15-2006 2:00PM

paulmyers00 wrote:

Don't get me wrong...purely for customer support reasons they should spend the extra money for sending out WinXP on a CD, but they don't...

Idiots

Windows Media Center Edition Disk(Help!)

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