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Using Retail XP Media Version
My question is: I have a retail version of Media Edition XP and want to use
that disk to do a repair install on a laptop running the same. Can I use this disk and put in the serial # from the bottom of the laptop as this laptop. has no recovery disk and I can't boot at all as I am getting: windows\system32\config\system corrupt or missing. I want to do either a repair install or a fresh install.......which might be better. Please advise and thank you very much for any and all ans. that I rec. KittyKat |
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Using Retail XP Media Version
kitb wrote:
My question is: I have a retail version of Media Edition XP and want to use that disk to do a repair install on a laptop running the same. Can I use this disk and put in the serial # from the bottom of the laptop as this laptop. has no recovery disk and I can't boot at all as I am getting: windows\system32\config\system corrupt or missing. I want to do either a repair install or a fresh install.......which might be better. Please advise and thank you very much for any and all ans. that I rec. How did you get a retail version of a product (Windows XP Media Center Edition is what you are speaking of - so I assume) that never sold as retail? Yes - many software download sites offer it - advertised as "retail" - but AFAIK, Windows XP Media Center Edition only came bundled *with* computers as an OEM license type. Even if you buy it *as a system builder*, it is still an OEM licensed version. If the CD matches the flavor and type ("Home", "Professional", "Media Center", etc; Retail, OEM, MSDN, Volume, etc) of the installed OS/product key sticker - then you should be fine. Repair install would keep things intact. In any case - here is the official Microsoft knowledge base article on fixing the issue you are almost reporting... How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 Good luck! -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Using Retail XP Media Version
kitb wrote:
My question is: I have a retail version of Media Edition XP and want to use that disk to do a repair install on a laptop running the same. Can I use this disk and put in the serial # from the bottom of the laptop as this laptop. has no recovery disk and I can't boot at all as I am getting: windows\system32\config\system corrupt or missing. I want to do either a repair install or a fresh install.......which might be better. Please advise and thank you very much for any and all ans. that I rec. How did you get a retail version of a product (Windows XP Media Center Edition is what you are speaking of - so I assume) that never sold as retail? Yes - many software download sites offer it - advertised as "retail" - but AFAIK, Windows XP Media Center Edition only came bundled *with* computers as an OEM license type. Even if you buy it *as a system builder*, it is still an OEM licensed version. If the CD matches the flavor and type ("Home", "Professional", "Media Center", etc; Retail, OEM, MSDN, Volume, etc) of the installed OS/product key sticker - then you should be fine. Repair install would keep things intact. In any case - here is the official Microsoft knowledge base article on fixing the issue you are almost reporting... How to recover from a corrupted registry that prevents Windows XP from starting http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 Good luck! -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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Using Retail XP Media Version
"kitb" wrote in message
... My question is: I have a retail version of Media Edition XP and want to use that disk to do a repair install on a laptop running the same. Can I use this disk and put in the serial # from the bottom of the laptop as this laptop. has no recovery disk and I can't boot at all as I am getting: windows\system32\config\system corrupt or missing. I want to do either a repair install or a fresh install.......which might be better. Please advise and thank you very much for any and all ans. that I rec. KittyKat First, as far as I can tell, Windows Media Edition was never sold as retail, only as OEM. Second, a repair install isn't the appropriate response for the problem you're experiencing. It may have no impact on the problem at all. A clean install would sort of fix it, but since you don't have any recovery disks, you also don't have the drivers that will be required to make the laptop work properly. You will need to check with the laptop manufacturer to get these BEFORE starting any kind of install. The correct directions are he http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 You can use *any* bootable XP CD to get to the Recovery Console, or you can attach the drive to another system, or boot with any other CD that recognises NTFS (including Linux CDs) and complete the tasks mentioned. If you attach the drive to another system, and understand the directions, you can pretty much skip thorough the task in about ten - twenty minutes and be done. While the drive is attached to another system, take the opportunity to back up its data! HTH -pk |
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Using Retail XP Media Version
"kitb" wrote in message
... My question is: I have a retail version of Media Edition XP and want to use that disk to do a repair install on a laptop running the same. Can I use this disk and put in the serial # from the bottom of the laptop as this laptop. has no recovery disk and I can't boot at all as I am getting: windows\system32\config\system corrupt or missing. I want to do either a repair install or a fresh install.......which might be better. Please advise and thank you very much for any and all ans. that I rec. KittyKat First, as far as I can tell, Windows Media Edition was never sold as retail, only as OEM. Second, a repair install isn't the appropriate response for the problem you're experiencing. It may have no impact on the problem at all. A clean install would sort of fix it, but since you don't have any recovery disks, you also don't have the drivers that will be required to make the laptop work properly. You will need to check with the laptop manufacturer to get these BEFORE starting any kind of install. The correct directions are he http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307545 You can use *any* bootable XP CD to get to the Recovery Console, or you can attach the drive to another system, or boot with any other CD that recognises NTFS (including Linux CDs) and complete the tasks mentioned. If you attach the drive to another system, and understand the directions, you can pretty much skip thorough the task in about ten - twenty minutes and be done. While the drive is attached to another system, take the opportunity to back up its data! HTH -pk |
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