Tweaks.com Forum / Tweaks & Customizing / Tweaking All Other Operating Systems / Slipstream media center edition w/o original cd? / Latest PostsInstantForum.NET v4.1.4Tweaks.com Forum http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/forum@tweaks.comMon, 08 Sep 2008 06:00:39 GMT20RE: Slipstream media center edition w/o original cd?http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Topic222327-9-1.aspxProbably not, it all depends upon what the backup program does. Most of them compress the files to allow getting everything in.Sun, 20 May 2007 15:40:14 GMTBertonRE: Slipstream media center edition w/o original cd?http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Topic222327-9-1.aspx[quote][b]Berton (5/20/2007)[/b][hr][quote] I never got an OS cd with this compute[/quote]<br>You do need the original CD for your installation to slipstream Service Packs into.<br><br>[quote]or is there anyway I can create a windows cd from the files already on my hard drive?[/quote]<br>You could copy the I386 Folder onto a CD but it wouldn't be bootable. <br><br>If an OEM doesn't provide the disk/s or the buyer doesn't choose the option to get them there usually is a program listed in the Start, All Programs menu about creating the backup disks.<br><br>Meant to add, the only WinXP MCE setups I've done had a DVD as the install disk.[/quote]<br><br>hm...so the back up disk program wouldn't help here, would it?Sun, 20 May 2007 10:47:38 GMTSonicJRE: Slipstream media center edition w/o original cd?http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Topic222327-9-1.aspx[quote] I never got an OS cd with this compute[/quote]<br>You do need the original CD for your installation to slipstream Service Packs into.<br><br>[quote]or is there anyway I can create a windows cd from the files already on my hard drive?[/quote]<br>You could copy the I386 Folder onto a CD but it wouldn't be bootable. <br><br>If an OEM doesn't provide the disk/s or the buyer doesn't choose the option to get them there usually is a program listed in the Start, All Programs menu about creating the backup disks.<br><br>Meant to add, the only WinXP MCE setups I've done had a DVD as the install disk.Sun, 20 May 2007 10:42:54 GMTBertonSlipstream media center edition w/o original cd?http://forum.tweaks.com/forum/Topic222327-9-1.aspxI bought a dell computer sometime ago, and it came with windows media center edition(I believe anyway) now, a year later I needed to reinstall windows on my computer, and I want to know, since I never got an OS cd with this computer, can I do that slipstreaming stuff with the original? or is there anyway I can create a windows cd from the files already on my hard drive?Sun, 20 May 2007 07:38:31 GMTSonicJ