Win XP Media Center Edition - (version 5.1) SP3 is altered in the Dimension E310

Huge problem. Many WIndows the missing files. Most of the functions/programs operate no or launch. System restore not working etc etc. I don't have the original OS installation disc, if any. But a couple of years Dell sold me a reinstallation DVD Win XP Media 2005 Version with Update Rollup 2. The drive says "already installed on your computer. I ordered thinking it would fix some problems with files at the time, but it never worked - saying that this is not the same version of XP on your PC. So I gave up - until today. I tried the DVD today and it seems that it might be able to install a complete (but older) edition of win xp on my machine. If I succeed at will I lose all my existing programs, documents etc. Thanks in advance...

The disc is the same as the original drive that would have supplied with your system.

The XP Media Centre edition DVD contains no Service Pack 3 as the media library, components of the Installer do not work if SP3 is slipstreamed.

Probably, you will get the error that your installation of XP is newer than the installation disc, if you try to use the installation disc fix.

You are the best to clean install (you will lose all the programs and files) and then install the stand-alone version of Service Pack 3 after Windows is installed.

See the Windows reinstallation Guide / A Clean installation of Windows XP (page 209) for more details:

http://philipyip.WordPress.com/Dell-community-forums/

Note If you don't have any files to the files page 413 Data Recovery of hard drive using Fedora before the clean install.

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