On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 06:10:32 +1100, "Rod Speed"
<rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:

>kilroy@washere.com wrote:
>> Does anyone know if the version of the OS on the HP & DELL Media
>> Center Edition 2005 machines is just like MS Windows Media Center
>> Edition 2005? Or are those OS's changed by HP & DELL to suit their
>> use (including their logos etc)?
>>
>> Asked another way - what happens if you restore a HP or DELL Media
>> Center Edition 2005 machine by installing on it a MS Windows Media
>> Center Edition 2005 OS?
>>
>> Reason for the question - my brother has a HP Media Center Edition
>> 2005 given to him for Xmas that requires recovery, on a new virgin HDD
>> (his original HDD is defunct & un-readable). He does not have a copy
>> of HP's Media Center Edition 2005, and has no 'recovery disk' if there
>> ever was one.
>
>He was supposed to have written one when he first got the machine.

He said he didn't get any instructions when he opened the box. His
son bought it for him on the other side of the country (CA) and mailed
it to him. I'll see if he can find instructions in the Start Menu. He
is some 800 miles from me, so I can't look for him.


>
>> But he says he can get his hands on a installation-copy of what
>> he calls a vanilla MS Windows Media Center Edition 2005.
>