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[Guest Wolfeymole]

When you first obtained Media Center Edition and it was installed by either you or the manufacturer there should have been a recovery partition on the hard drive.

 

Did you create a back up cd or dvd?

 

It appears to me Dazza that you irrevocably deleted ALL partitions on that hard disk drive.

No amount of recovery disks will help you now.

You will need a fully installable operating system disk

[AdvancedSetup]

Well actually even deleted partitions can be recovered/repaired but it should be done by someone that knows what they're doing.

 

Here is a site that makes some software to recover just about anything. I've used some of them such as the Active Partition Recovery and it worked as advertised and recovered an XP system that someone had installed Vista onto that had wiped and created it's own partition.

 

Though as said, this is a much more advanced operation and if you need the data that is on this computer you should take it to a shop and have them help.

 

Data Recovery Products

 

If you've decided you don't need this data then you need a BOOTABLE XP CD either Media Center, PRO, or HOME version to install, though if you got recovery CD from them then one of those should be bootable and allow you to restore the system back to the way it came from the factory/shop.

[dazza40745]

yeah, i am probably gonna tak it into a shop because that seems easier!!!!

 

thanx for trying tho!!!