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Windows XP installation on a Dell laptop (confusing info )
I have been trying to install Win XP Media Center Edition 2005 a Dell XPS M1710 .... WHY ? because the laptop will only run on the version of XP that it was originally shipped with and no other version of XP will work ! Dell has stopped all support for Win XP and because this laptop uses XP only there is no support for the machine and all information that was on the Dell web site is now unavailable !! The amount of confusing information that I have come across has made it so unclear on how to download and burn a bootable IOS DVD and then do a fresh clean install of Win XP !!! These are some of the issues that I am not clear on .... Do I have to extract the downloaded IOS file from Z-Zip before i try to burn a bootable IOS disk As I am going to use CDBurnerXP to burn the boot IOS disk or will CDBurnerXP extract and unzip the files by itself ??? I will be using Win 7 to burn the Win XP IOS boot disk in that case to I have to download two programs first ? and they are NET.Framework 2.0 and IMAPlv 2.0 XP X86 before I can make the boot disk and install it???Or does that only applies if I am using Win XP to burn the IOS boot disk ? If I have to install both of the programs because I am using Win 7 where and how do I install them ? Do I make a folder with the downloaded WinXP IOS file and the NET Framework and IMAPlv programs and select them all to be burnt on the Boot disk ? or is it enough just to install them on my C rive so they get recognised and therefore I am able to make the boot disk and install it ? PLS dont point me to a how to do a clean fresh install of windows Tutorial as they do not address the issues that are related in this case !! The forums right across the board are full of users confused and left in a void trying to overcome confusing info so that they can install Win XP and then hopefully upgrade to win 7, 8 , or 10 !! I appreciate anyone that takes the time to try to answer my problems ,I just hope I have made it clear enough in regards to the issues I am having .