NJShoreguy
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I had an issue with a major hard drive failure that prompted me to do a clean install of my legit copy of Windows Media Center 2005 OEM on a hard drive that I scrubbed clean with Drive Scrubber.
The first Disc gets as far as loading all the drivers, reformatting the drive as NTFS, etc. Then it says installation will continue after the computer reboots.
However, once it does reboot, it goes back to the "Checking your Configuration" screen and loading drivers, all the way thru to "Press F8 if you agree to the terms" screen. Then you get the screen that now shows the newly formatted drive.
The only options you have are to repair, install or quit. If I click on install, it gives you the message about installing a version over an existing copy and possible problems.
Clicking on Repair didn't take me anywhere where I could fix the problem, so I opted to scrub the drive yet again (3rd time now).
I checked my disc to make sure it wasn't scratched, dirty, etc, and it is clean. The hard drive has been check with chkdsk and shows no errors.
Anyone have any suggestions what I might be doing wrong or how to make this work? I'm doing the clean install on an IDE drive. The motherboard is my Chaintech S1689. AMD 64 4800 Dual Core processor. 2 gigs of PC3200 400 CL2 DDR ram installed.
Thanks,
Dave
The first Disc gets as far as loading all the drivers, reformatting the drive as NTFS, etc. Then it says installation will continue after the computer reboots.
However, once it does reboot, it goes back to the "Checking your Configuration" screen and loading drivers, all the way thru to "Press F8 if you agree to the terms" screen. Then you get the screen that now shows the newly formatted drive.
The only options you have are to repair, install or quit. If I click on install, it gives you the message about installing a version over an existing copy and possible problems.
Clicking on Repair didn't take me anywhere where I could fix the problem, so I opted to scrub the drive yet again (3rd time now).
I checked my disc to make sure it wasn't scratched, dirty, etc, and it is clean. The hard drive has been check with chkdsk and shows no errors.
Anyone have any suggestions what I might be doing wrong or how to make this work? I'm doing the clean install on an IDE drive. The motherboard is my Chaintech S1689. AMD 64 4800 Dual Core processor. 2 gigs of PC3200 400 CL2 DDR ram installed.
Thanks,
Dave