Second thought once you have the PC up and running with latest patches, you 
could take a backup / image using Macrium Reflect http://www.macrium.com/ 
and a second partition / HD disk.
Software allows you to restore an image from a boot CD.  i.e. restore 
complete copy of XP.
They have a free version.

Robert Fernando
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Glazier" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Computer boot problem


>I was not trying to muddy the waters.
> Sometimes a simple install just "goes wrong"...
> Funny stuff happens on the way to the HD, etc...
> I it happens a lot, I worry about the hardware.
>
> "Windows Media Center Edition 2005 Update Rollup 2"
> is the current latest "patch??" of Media Center.
> It would seem to me that it is also XP-Service Pack 2 at the same time.
> But that is just a guess. MS never made this easy.
> As a matter of fact, I've seen some sort of stuff that was not supported
> in Media Center when part of XP. (I never had it then so did not pay 
> attention.)
>
> I would look in Control Panel/System and see if it mentions the SP there.
> I'm only concerned with the "as installed" OS-SP.
> I warned my neighbor about this very thing with a Dell and an old install 
> disk,
> and after his third try he bought into what the problems was. (No firewall
> RUNNING on the old ones.)
>
> You can always pick and choose your updates one by one or in certain
> "allowed combinations" by doing a custom install at the Windows Update 
> site.
> Vista is about the same.
>
> Good luck,  Rick Glazier
>
> From: "Donald DeWitt"
>>First thing, the computer never did completely boot-up, only in safe mode.
> clipped
>>Also, Rick had concerns about the sp# of the reinstall; the exact wordings
>>on the Dell/factory reinstall CD are “Windows Media Center Edition 2005 
>>with
>>Update Rollup 2.”
>
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