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Reinstalling XP Media Center on laptop - lost recovery CD


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So I'm trying to put in a clean copy of XP Media Center on my Mom's Acer laptop (her current installation is kinda jacked) and I can't figure out quite how to do it.

I'm very familiar with putting together a PC and installing OS from scratch but my biggest challenge here is finding a XP Media Center disc without actually buying one. I still have the product key, it's on the sticker under the laptop.

So the million dollar question is: how/where do I get/buy a Windows XP installation disc without the product key (which I already have)?

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I have a copy of Vista home basic you can have for $15 if you want it Raffy.

Thanks Nate. Let me ask her is she still wants me to mess around with her laptop...she wanted me to a few weeks ago but hasn't complained since. Do you think an AMD Turion 64 X2 and 1GB of RAM will be able to handle Vista Basic?

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i have a few different copies of vista licenses + xp tablet 2005 edition + windows 7 rc.

no charge. i get them for free through msdnaa. just pay for shipping and i can send over the dvd/cd by thursday/friday.

take a look at the following. the flagged names are ones that i have already used up. unflagged ones are what i can get licenses for.

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