Guest _Glitch_VtS Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 I just bought a new Hard Drive and put Media Center on it as my OS. I now want to uninstal Media Center and put Home Edition on instead. How do I do this?
Guest Bruce Chambers Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Changing Media Center to Home Edition _Glitch_VtS wrote: > I just bought a new Hard Drive and put Media Center on it as my OS. I now > want to uninstal Media Center and put Home Edition on instead. How do I do > this? I'm afraid that the only way to change from WinXP MCE to WinXP Home is to format the drive and start over. There is no supported downgrade path or technique. After backing up any data you wish to transfer to the new OS installation,, simply boot from the WinXP Home installation CD. You'll be offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.) HOW TO Install Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941 http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm Then the backed up data can be restored and applications re-installed. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell
Guest _Glitch_VtS Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Changing Media Center to Home Edition I have been trying to format but I cant find the option to when I boot from the cd. Should just select delete partions on my HD? Is it ok to just install the home over Media? "Bruce Chambers" wrote: > _Glitch_VtS wrote: > > I just bought a new Hard Drive and put Media Center on it as my OS. I now > > want to uninstal Media Center and put Home Edition on instead. How do I do > > this? > > > I'm afraid that the only way to change from WinXP MCE to WinXP Home > is to format the drive and start over. There is no supported downgrade > path or technique. > > After backing up any data you wish to transfer to the new OS > installation,, simply boot from the WinXP Home installation CD. You'll > be offered the opportunity to delete, create, and format partitions as > part of the installation process. (You may need to re-arrange the order > of boot devices in the PC's BIOS to boot from the CD.) > > HOW TO Install Windows XP > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;en-us;316941 > > http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html > > http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm > > Then the backed up data can be restored and applications re-installed. > > > > -- > > Bruce Chambers > > Help us help you: > http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > > They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary > safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin > > Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell >
Guest Bruce Chambers Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Changing Media Center to Home Edition _Glitch_VtS wrote: > I have been trying to format but I cant find the option to when I boot from > the cd. Should just select delete partions on my HD? Yes, deleting and recreating the partition is acceptable. The result is the same. > Is it ok to just install > the home over Media? > It's not possible. -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. -Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. -Bertrand Russell
Guest Ken Blake, MVP Posted August 13, 2007 Posted August 13, 2007 Re: Changing Media Center to Home Edition On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:06:00 -0700, _Glitch_VtS <GlitchVtS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > I just bought a new Hard Drive and put Media Center on it as my OS. I now > want to uninstal Media Center and put Home Edition on instead. How do I do > this? Why do you want to do this? Are you aware that Media Center is a superset of XP Home? There are some extra features in Media Center, but there's nothing in Home that isn't also in Media Center. If you don't want to use the extra Media Center features, just don't use them. The only way to do this is doing a clean installation of XP. Just boot from the Windows XP CD (change the BIOS boot order if necessary to accomplish this) and follow the prompts for a clean installation (delete the existing partition by pressing "D" when prompted, then create a new one). You can find detailed instructions here: http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html or here http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_install_windows_xp.htm or here http://windowsxp.mvps.org/XPClean.htm or here http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/clean_install.htm -- Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User Please Reply to the Newsgroup
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