Hi! I would like to INSTALL windows xp home media on a hard drive that had a previous version of xp pro..I have previously tried to install this version(home media) on this hard drive.Everything was working except that at start up it would ask me what program i wanted to start with...XP Pro or Home media..it had the otion of going into pro twice in the options choice..if i was not there to choose home media it would try to go in the XP Pro after 30 seconds or something and it would just jam up...This hard drive is a SATA drive 160 GB western digital..Hope u have enough info to help me... LarryIt sounds like you have one installation of Media center on there along with 2 installations of XP...

To confirm this OPEN up Windows Explorer and see how many Windows directories you have and how they are listed.

The best approach would be a full format of that HDD and a clean install of Media center...

Start considering what data you need backed up as it will all be gone after a full format.

Let us know.how do u suggest i format the hard drive? putting this hdd as a slave in another COMPUTER and format with xp or use some kind of dos program like fdisk ...I athought i had already formatted when i installed the home media.No I don't have a version of windows xp anymore on the drive ,i looked with explorer.I think there must be something i am doing wrong when i format or something.Could someone explain to me how to format a hdd correctly,what program to use...where to get it...THANKS again, LarryDo you have a floppy drive on this computer?yes i do have a floppy driveThen go to www.bootdisk.com and download a file and format
the complete drive.

You can all use kill disk to do a low level format.

http://www.killdisk.com/The Windows disk will do it as well. Just choose to format the drive during installation.