

WINDOWS XP MEDIA CENTER EDITION 2005 ISO ENGLISH DOWNLOAD INSTALL
Hell, if you go and run the dell recovery (Ctrl+F11 on bootup), you'll end up with a clean install of the OS, which will include the dell media creation tool (it gets deleted every time you run it - I guess this is some form of copyprotection, or theft-thwarting). It's either that, or make the ISO from the hidden partition. It takes anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes, but when its finished, you'll have a legal copy of the OS that's currently installed on your system.ĭell will charge you anywhere from $10 USD to $45 USD for the media. The Dell Media Creation Tool will build an ISO from the GHO file on the system. then load that up in nLite, and remove the components that you need to remove.Īll new Dell systems (Dating back to approximatley March of 2005) include a large 3-8GB hidden partition on the hard drive which contains a modified copy of Symantec Ghost 2003, a GHO file (Ghost image file), and a few other utilities (Gui for recovery purposes, simple hardware diagnostics, CD IMAGE CREATION TOOL). But unfortunately I can't find an OEM version.Ĭheck your start menu for a Dell Media Creation tool, which will take files from the hidden partition/I386 directory on your hard drive, and create a hackable iso image. If I ask to Dell to supply me the original installation CDs of XP-MCE, they will give me them (without paying anything?) ?Īnother way it's to download from P2P a XP-MCE OEM in Italian and then use my regular Product-Key (written in a tag in the back of the notebook). Unfortunately I discovered that the installation CD maked by nLite using the c:\i386 of Dell notebook is very bugged.in other words it install a very unstable system and missing some important files.
