Wednesday, I decided that I wanted some of the pre-installed apps on my machine. Also, my nieces really liked one of the screen-savers. It was my duty as an uncle to get that screen-saver back! Plus, that bug with file selection was annoying.
Installing XP Media Center Edition was easy. Dell System Restore did not work. Thankfully, the discs did.
Upgrading ran into the blue screen problem I originally had. Performing a clean install also had the blue screen problem. I tried the method originally used to get Vista to install, but it also blue screened.
I spent the day removing and formatting partitions. I ended up removing them all, even the diagnostic and restore partitions. That didn't work. The computer still blue screened.
With a call into Dell Support, the nice tech got me to change the RAID setting on my computer to auto detect. It made sense since I don't have a RAID setup. That appeared to fix the install problem.
Having spent way too much time installing Vista, I went with the clean install. The applications and the screen-saver were never installed, in the end. Hopefully the nieces won't be disappointed.
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