On 2007/01/31 14:33 (GMT-0600) M Harris apparently typed: > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 09:13, Dirk Gorissen wrote:
>> Any tips/experiences appreciated. > ... did HP supply that system with a "recovery partition"... in other > words, > is HP shipping that machine with a bootable option to restore the entire > system to "ship" defaults by installing from the recovery partition? > If so, there is a technique (I have used it several times with HP > machines) > for repartitioning the drive, installing Suse, and then "recovering" the > original from the recovery partition. > Now for the caveat... I have only done this several times with XP... M$ > may > have different rules (behaviors) for the vista preloads. On the other hand > (and a positive note) HP is probably trying to maintain some consistency with > their product line and the HP vista preloads probably work just like the XP > preloads did. Maybe this works the same for Vista: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,122487-page,1/article.html?findid=51120 -- "I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." John 10:10 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
