Repairing XP Media Center Edition with an XP home SP2 disc?

Indeliblebird · Guest

I have an Acer Aspire 5100 notebook that came pre-loaded with MCE and that is
now starting to
cause me problems (blue screen, various errors, etc.) I had these problems a
few months back and was able to simply do a system restore to solve the
problem, this time however, I cannot restore (all of my system restore points
prior to the middle of last month have disappeared). My dvd-r drive will not
recognize cd or dvd-r media properly (I have avi's saved that it won't pick
up at all), my user accounts except for the administrator account have
disappeared and when I try to remove them they aren't listed. When I try to
re-create them, MCE tells me they already exist. Unfortunately I don't have
the installation disc for this system. I do have a XP home disc that came
with my desktop pc. Can I use this disc to perform a repair for MCE without
any problems for my system?
Also, I was thinking of partitioning my drive and just installing XP Home
because I cannot use MCE with my pro-audio applications. If I do this how do
I select which OS to use and is this safe as well?

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