The other down-side of having the "recovery" CD as a partition on a hard drive is that all that hard drive space supposedly paid for is "lost". As you wrote, Elaine - an "idiotic" idea (and they get paid to come up with ideas like that - amazing!). Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: ETM [mailto:etm1935@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, 7 June 2005 7:45 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] HP class action suit It also isn't 100% certain that it will work. I was unable to use the recovery partition once but fortunately by then HP had sent me the set of restore CDs. I used them and was able to reformat and reinstall the applications. You can't trust a computer to permit access to that recovery partition. The whole idea was idiotic. Elaine