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

[Indeliblebird]

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?

 

[Bob I]

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?

Nope, number one, you need the MCE disc to fix your system, and two the
XP Home isn't legit for installing any place but on the PC it came with.
I suggest you contact Acer tech support to resolve what appears to be
hardware issues.

 

[Bob]

Run sfc /scannow

Nope, number one, you need the MCE disc to fix your system, and two the XP
Home isn't legit for installing any place but on the PC it came with. I
suggest you contact Acer tech support to resolve what appears to be
hardware issues.

 

[Bob I]

I don't need to.

Run sfc /scannow

 

[Bob]

How do you know that?

I don't need to.

 

[Bob I]

Because my system is just fine.

How do you know that?

 

[Bob]

A bit of confusion. My suggestion was for the OP. I'm surprised you didn't
know that.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

A bit of confusion. My suggestion was for the OP. I'm surprised you didn't
know that.

He may have known that, but I'll point out that if you want to give
advice to someone, you need to be very careful with respect to which
message in the thread you reply to.

If you reply to someone other than the original poster, the person
with the problem, don't be surprised if the intent of your message
gets lost, and your message is completely misunderstood.

 

[Bob]

Yes, I thought about that.
Thanks.

He may have known that, but I'll point out that if you want to give
advice to someone, you need to be very careful with respect to which
message in the thread you reply to.

If you reply to someone other than the original poster, the person
with the problem, don't be surprised if the intent of your message
gets lost, and your message is completely misunderstood.