Legally downloading windows XP Media Centre Edition

Ugley_Matt

Ugley_Matt

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I've been given a laptop that needs reinstalling. Its got the product key for XP i
MCE 2005 but i dont have the install discs. Is there any way to get this legally? I've had a look but can only find torrent links. I'd thought it would have been easier.
 
Ugley_Matt said:
I've been given a laptop that needs reinstalling. Its got the product key for XP i
MCE 2005 but i dont have the install discs. Is there any way to get this legally? I've had a look but can only find torrent links. I'd thought it would have been easier.
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AFAIK there aren't any "legitimate" download sources for XP ISOs, including the MCE derivative, but you should be OK with a torrent link if you verify the downloads against the checksums posted by MS for MSDN subscriber usage (non-subscribers can see the checksums although they can't download the actual ISOs):

File Name: en_winxp_mce_2005_cd1.iso
SHA1 checksum: 263e59a41559bdb988304f033ea8116efc500456

File Name: en_winxp_mce_2005_cd2.iso
SHA1 checksum: 4efc488f9ed6b746cec11e8b1cdc5241c50fa490

If you can't find a clean copy, post back here and I'll upload the ISOs to Dropbox or something for you. Or maybe SkyDrive would be more appropriate. :D
 
If you could do that that would be great thanks. I'm on the third set and so far they've either been the wrong thing, or the wrong language.

Would score large numbers of brownie points as the wife hasnt been able to go on facebook for days!!:D
 
Apologies to re-kindle an old thread but if someone could possibly send me the download links it would be massively appreciated. I too, like the first poster am on my third set and none of them match the MS MD5's
 
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