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Got Vista, want media centre aswell

  • 02-01-2008 7:59pm
    #1
    Fresh Pots
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    Is it necessary to format the hard drive to install a second os?


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  • #2
    aidan_walsh
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    You mean XP Media Centre, or the Media Centre of a different version of Vista?


  • #3
    Fresh Pots
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    sorry xp media center, but would it be easier to get a vista media center os?


  • #4
    Karoma
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    ^ Not in Home Basic. It is in Home Premium - upgrade maybe? Or try MediaPortal ( Free OSS: http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ )


    Otherwise, to answer your original Q: You can shrink the Vista partition, create a new partition, boot with the install CD and install to the other partition. Back up data before attempting any of this.


  • #5
    mathias
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    Vista media center is built in to all Vistas except for Home edition so everything Home Premium + has Vista media center.

    Nope , thats wrong , here is the Vista features chart ,

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx

    As you can see , Media center is only included in Vista home premium and Vista Ultimate , it is not part of home basic or any flavour of Vista business.
    The last one being the more important here as a Vostros and the like are getting really popular , and as they are a business machine you wont be getting media center.

    If your going to be using media center with a large screen TV , then the one in Vista is streets ahead of XP MCE as it makes much better use of the screen space , especially with Music .


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