Upgrade to Windows MCE2005

[[GSV]Trig]

Nice, completely no relivance to the topic at all, nice spam/flame baiting there...

[weebroonieuk]

well your the one that went of topic before i did !, i was telling yous to leave the guy alone if your not gonna answer his question which you never even attempted to do

[8bit]

OK I'm interested in the original topic as well cos I'm having problems doing a clean install of MCE05

For some reason mine has a problem loading my VIA SATA drivers off the floppy at the "Press F6 to install third party SCSI/RAID drivers" bit. It sees the drivers on the disk, loads them so i can partition my hard drives then it refuses to copy the drivers to the hard drives making it impossible to install MCE.

So I was thinking I might install from my plain old non service pack XP Pro disc and attempt to install MCE as an upgrade. I noticed that when using my normal XP x64 edition (my main windows install now) I don't get any option to install MCE (even to a separate hard drive partition) when i stick the MCE disc in while XP64 is running. I have a horrible feeling it may do the same under a vanilla XP x86 install as well but will see.

Monkee I'll give it a shot tonight or tomorrow and let you know how it works on a clean install. Bear in mind though that you may have different results depending partly on how heavily customised you've got your current XP install. I'd use something like Ghost or Acronis TrueImage to take a snapshot of your XP install before doing an OS upgrade in case it all goes Pete Tong.

[8bit]

OK I installed standard XP 32bit after having no success installing MCE05 direct and did an upgrade from within XP32 to MCE. It complained a bit in the install process but completed and runs fine. Note that I didn't do anything at all with XP32, just booted it first time to make sure it was OK then ran the upgrade from there. Looks like that worked then, but remember that was a clean XP with no service pack install, you may have different degrees of success with an install that's been lived in for a while. Back it up first!