Qosmio G20: Media Centre Receiver issue - Recovery question

As abvoe really, I usually leave my computer running overnight and yesterday I went on it to find that I had 80mb of hard drive space left (60 gig hard drive). Error messages had been popping up and a record of these was saved in the pchealth folder, under userdumps, or something like that. Anyway I deleted 58gigs worth of these userdumps but the same error message kept cropping up.
It was an error with the Media Centre Receiver, but I'm not sure entirely what this is, but it was based in the ehome folder which I think is located in the main Windows folder.
I've been into msconfig and stopped the ehhome.exe from starting at at startup but that seems to mess up the video/tv settings within Media Centre.
I recently installed codec's and a divx player to play divx movies.
I just wondered wether it would be safer to use the recovery CD and re-install windows and the software and create a restore point, then install the codecs again to see if the same problem arises, or whether anyone has had this problem and cured it.
Finally, I did actually run the recovery cd with a view to doing the above, but when the cd boots the first line in dos says something like, 'running setup for windows 98'. Surely XP is on the recovery cd and not 98?
Can anybody please confirm this for me and any answers to the above problems.
Thanks.

Hi Simon
Please dont panic. On recovery DVD there is definitely WXP MCE and if you see the first few words where is written Win98 that doesnt mean anything specially. If you use recovery media you will make clean OS installation.
Now to your problem: I didnt understood you right which problem you have but the fact is when you record the TV program all the night it is possible that the HDD will be full. In the best quality one hour recorded material needs about 12 GB (in my case). If it runs a few hours the HDD will be full.
It is not easy to give you any precise answers because we dont know anything about your personal settings and preinstalled software. I have also G20 and I can tell you definitely that all recorded content will not be saver under PCHEALTH folder. How it happen in your case I really dont know.
Good luck!

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