Media Center or XP home OS selection

[Bwave]

I've formatted the hard drive and installed XP media center on my
machine(Dell 4600).Now,when the computer boots it asks me if I want to load
XP Media Center or XP home edition.Can I set it up to skip this process and
load the XP media Center
all the time?Thanks for any help.

Dave

[DL]

Well it sounds like you did'nt Format prior to install, as it seems you
still have the other o/s
http://michaelstevenstech.com/cleanxpinstall.html

"Bwave" > wrote in message
...
> I've formatted the hard drive and installed XP media center on my
> machine(Dell 4600).Now,when the computer boots it asks me if I want to
load
> XP Media Center or XP home edition.Can I set it up to skip this process
and
> load the XP media Center
> all the time?Thanks for any help.
>
> Dave

[Ken Blake, MVP]

Bwave wrote:

> I've formatted the hard drive and installed XP media center on my
> machine(Dell 4600).Now,when the computer boots it asks me if I want
> to load XP Media Center or XP home edition.


Something is wrong with at least one of those two sentences. If you had
formatted the drive, any mention of the previous operating system, whatever
it was, would be gone.

Please describe excatly what you did, in as much detail as possible.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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> Can I set it up to skip
> this process and load the XP media Center
> all the time?Thanks for any help.
>
> Dave

[Ayush]

Start > Run
Type "msconfig" (Without quotes)
Boot.ini tab
Click "Check all boot paths"

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> I've formatted the hard drive and installed XP media center on my
> machine(Dell 4600).Now,when the computer boots it asks me if I want
> to load XP Media Center or XP home edition.Can I set it up to skip
> this process and load the XP media Center
> all the time?Thanks for any help.
>
> Dave

[Bwave]

Hello,I had the computer boot to the d/drive with the windows CD in it.I
followed the on screen prompts.The drive had 3 previous partions,I deleted
them all.The drive was formatted.Continued following the on screen
instructions.The computer seems to be working fine.This is a Dell 4600 desk
top.I used a OEM windows XP media CD which was from a Dell laptop(6400) which
recently just purchased.
Thanks again for any help.

Dave

"Ayush" wrote:

> Start > Run
> Type "msconfig" (Without quotes)
> Boot.ini tab
> Click "Check all boot paths"
>
> --
> Ayush [ Be ''?'' Happy ]
> -------------
> Search - www.Google.com | Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org
> Snip your long urls - http://snipurl.com/
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>
>
> Replid to [Bwave]s message :
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> > I've formatted the hard drive and installed XP media center on my
> > machine(Dell 4600).Now,when the computer boots it asks me if I want
> > to load XP Media Center or XP home edition.Can I set it up to skip
> > this process and load the XP media Center
> > all the time?Thanks for any help.
> >
> > Dave
>
>
>