Unattended MCE
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Requirements
- Windows Media Center Edition 2005 CD1 & CD2
- Boot CD Requirements
Getting Started
Copy the Windows MCE 2005 CD1 to a folder called "MCEUA" in your hard disk.
Copy CMPNENTS folder from CD2 to MCEUA so you have X:\MCEUA\cmpnents, for example.
Delete the following directories from MCEUA. This will free up enough space to fit the Media Center files to a 700 MiB CDR.
- CMPNENTS\TABLETPC
- I386\WIN9XMIG
- I386\WIN9XUPG
- I386\WINNTUPG
- SUPPORT
- VALUEADD
Creating winnt.sif file
Here is a sample winnt.sif. You may personalize the entries in Bold font. You may delete the following sections from the winnt.sif.
- Display
- FavoritesEx
- Shell
;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=yes [Unattended] FileSystem=* UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS ProgramFilesDir="E:\Applications" CommonProgramFilesDir="E:\Applications\Common Files" UnattendSwitch="yes" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=admin EncryptedAdminPassword=No AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=4 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=225 OemSkipWelcome=1 ProfilesDir="F:\Users\" [Display] Xresolution=1024 Yresolution=768 [UserData] ProductKey=ABCDE-FGHIJ-KLMNO-PQRST-UVWXY FullName="McoreD" OrgName="MSUN" ComputerName=* [FavoritesEx] Title1="Mozilla - Home of the Firefox web browser" URL1="http://www.mozilla.org" Title2="BetaONE - The latest Beta News and Reviews" URL2="http://www.betaone.net" Title3="Welcome to the Microsoft User Network" URL3="http://wmwiki.com" [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended = Yes [URL] Home_Page=http://www.google.com.au Search_Page=http://www.google.com.au [TapiLocation] CountryCode=61 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=8 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1,7,8,9,10 SystemLocale=00000c09 UserLocale=00000c09 InputLocale=0c09:00000409 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=BetaONE [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off
Save the winnt.sif file in MCEUA\I386 folder.
Creating Bootable CD Image
Copy the following to Notepad
@echo off CLS TITLE Creating ISO Image of Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 (MRMPFPP_EN) ECHO ECHO Creating ISO... CDIMAGE.EXE -lMRMPFPP_EN -t08/08/2004,08:00:00 -h -j1 -m -bxpboot.img "G:\MCEUA" G:\Uploads\McoreD\MRMPFPP_EN.ISO PAUSE EXIT
Personalize it and save it as ISO Creator for Windows MCE.cmd
Run the ISO Creator for Windows MCE.cmd
Burning the CD Image
Before burning CD it is important that you boot the PC using another Windows CD and make sure ProgramFilesDir and ProfilesDir partitions shown in Windows Setup match the drive letter in winnt.sif. If not, then you have to note them down, edit the winnt.sif and recreate the ISO.
Use your favorite CD Burning Program to burn the image
Keep the original Windows XP Media Center 2005 CDs in a safe place
Installing Windows
Backup all your documents to another physical hard drive or to a removable disk because you are going to repartition a complete Hard Disk.
Boot the Computer with a Windows CD (that has ProgramFilesDir, CommonProgramFiles and ProfilesDir in the same partition as Windows) and load Windows Setup
Partition the Hard disk. Please refer to Hard Disk Paritioning.
Install Windows on C: which will be your Backup OS.
Format the other partitions using the Backup OS. -- failure to do so will result in a failed MCE installation
Now install Windows MCE on D:
