You will need a floppy drive installed in your 9150 to reinstall windows from a non Dell cd.

 

Go here and download R130118.exe    these are your sata drivers

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Now you can execute this file (it just extracts the files to a directory, make note of where) or uncompress it with winzip or winrar, now copy all the extracted files to a floppy disc. When you boot from the Media center CD start tapping F6 to load third party drivers, setup will ask for the floppy disc in A drive, later in the set up. Now setup will see the drive.

First i dont have a Floppy Drive on my Dimension, i replaced it with a Multimedia Card reader.

Second, i tried to sleepstream the drivers onto my Mediacenter setup CD and i was able to select the partition, windows MCE setup finished with sucess but windows keeped restarting when the Windows XP screen was shown. Any idea what to do? 

Thanks.

Does Safe Mode work? if so go to my computer properties Advanced tab and then startup and recovery settings, and untick Automatically restart in the system failure section. See if you get an error message the next time you boot normally. Also check the root of the system drive to see if it left a log or dump file.

I have no idea about how to configure the bios in order to make it reachebel by the win setup. Anyway, i slipstreamed another time the drivers, in the way that was explained in the unattended.msfn.org  and i get an error when the "graphical" setup of windows starts, the part after the restart of the computer. I just get an Fatal Error mesage stating : "Fatal Error: Internal Setup data structures are corrupted (phase 0)." Any idea whats wrong?

Also the setuplog.txt  contains:

 

Time,File,Line,Tag,Message
10/23/2006 15:55:20.046,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,6434,BEGIN_SECTION,Installing Windows NT
10/23/2006 15:55:22.078,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\wizard.c,1568,,SETUP: Calculating registery size
10/23/2006 15:55:22.078,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\wizard.c,1599,,SETUP: Calculated time for Win9x migration = 120 seconds
10/23/2006 15:55:22.078,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,6465,BEGIN_SECTION,Initialization
10/23/2006 15:55:22.125,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,6585,BEGIN_SECTION,Common Initialiazation
10/23/2006 15:55:22.125,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1674,BEGIN_SECTION,Initializing action log
10/23/2006 15:55:22.140,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\log.c,133,,GUI mode Setup has started.

10/23/2006 15:55:22.140,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1679,END_SECTION,Initializing action log
10/23/2006 15:55:22.140,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1764,BEGIN_SECTION,Creating setup background window
10/23/2006 15:55:22.312,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1775,END_SECTION,Creating setup background window
10/23/2006 15:55:22.312,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1826,BEGIN_SECTION,Initializing SMS support
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1835,,Setup: (non-critical error): Failed load of ismif32.dll.
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1837,END_SECTION,Initializing SMS support
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1868,BEGIN_SECTION,Shutting down power management
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1871,END_SECTION,Shutting down power management
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\syssetup.c,1950,BEGIN_SECTION,Processing parameters from sif
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\cmdline.c,228,,SETUP: SpSetupLoadParameter was unable to find msdosinitiated.
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\cmdline.c,632,,SETUP: Upgrade=0.
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\cmdline.c,633,,SETUP: Unattended=0.
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\cmdline.c,228,,SETUP: SpSetupLoadParameter was unable to find uniqueness.
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\cmdline.c,228,,SETUP: SpSetupLoadParameter was unable to find AccMagnifier.
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\cmdline.c,228,,SETUP: SpSetupLoadParameter was unable to find AccReader.
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\cmdline.c,228,,SETUP: SpSetupLoadParameter was unable to find AccKeyboard.
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\log.c,133,,Internal Setup data structures are corrupted (phase 0).

10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\log.c,133,,Fatal Error
10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\log.c,133,,:

10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\log.c,133,,Internal Setup data structures are corrupted (phase 0).

10/23/2006 15:55:22.328,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\log.c,133,,
***

10/23/2006 15:55:26.609,d:\xpsprtm\base\ntsetup\syssetup\log.c,133,,GUI mode Setup has ended because of a fatal error.

 

Guys i Really Need HELP!

 

Cheers.

Are you willing to spend $20 on a USB floppy drive?

:smileyhappy: I don't think so. I resolved the Fatal Error thing. I fixed it with this two simple lines:

[Data]
   MsDosInitiated=No

Now windows installs perfectly. Thanks anyway.

Take care.