HP Laptop (Defeat acknowledged)

[Stew Schneider]

Howard Coles wrote:
> And I had to do the same thing as Mark (I think it was) wrote above on
> my Dell, because Vista does something really stupid to the
> partitioning.
> The problem is, I don't think HP ships an installable version of
> Vista, I think their recovery DVD/CD is strictly a re-imaging type
> recovery so that you couldn't define partition sizes, etc.
>   
I think you're right and I hadn't considered that. I'm even happier that 
I quit when I did. This is the second Vista box I've tried to put an 
operating system on, and have run into the same problem. Vista is doing 
something goofy with the HD.

stew