Yeah, it's been like this for a few years now, most new pcs don't come with the OS 
install disks/discs, just a recovery cdrom.. im surprised you didnt at least get 
the cdrom, putting it on a partition is stupid... anyway looks like you'll have to 
buy XP retail... maybe you can work out some discount with HP. good luck





On Monday, November 5, 2001 at 4:53 pm, rudedog wrote:
>Remember the old days when you bought a computer, the dealer also gave you the operating 
>system (providing you purchased it) via CD or diskettes?  I guess those days are 
>over.
>
>I bought a new HP with Microsoft XP the other day.  First thing I did was reformat 
>and partition the disk drive.  Bad mistake.  I hunted for the XP CD, could not find 
>it. E-mailed HP tech support only to get canned answers that did not answer my request 
>for a system recovery CD to be mailed to me.
>
>It seems that HP provides the system recovery CD in the form of a hidden partition 
>on the hard drive.  I had 
>deleted it when I reformatted. So now I have to Fed-Ex my shiny new computer back 
>to HP so they can spend 5 minutes reimaging my hard drive.
>
>So why am I writing this?  Just to tell you guys to be 
>careful.  Unless you buy XP retail out of the box, your 
>vendor might only give you a soft copy on your hard 
>drive.  You will not be able to install it on another 
>machine if your first machine goes *boom*.
>
>Cheers 

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