Hi Rick,
Hmmm, read the manual, I guess I should get off the computer and do that...
I'm just very excited with my new toy.
lol, I'm one of these guys that doesn't read the assembly instructions when
I buy something... guess I should.
Thanks
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HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
Vista Home Premium/dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17" widescreen
.... and a whole wack of bells and whistles

SWEET!!
"Rick Rogers" <rick.TakeThisOut@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> Hi Paul,
>
> You obtain one from HP. Normally, they use a proprietary recovery
> partition and an option to create your own set of recovery disks. Check
> the system documentation on how to access the former and create the
> latter.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Paul" <p.TakeThisOut@p.com> wrote in message
> news:epSbA8O3HHA.1164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> this disk says it's only to upgrade Vista, but I didn't get the Vista
>> Home Premium disk if for some reason my hard drive crashes and I need to
>> reinstall. how do I do that if I don't have the OS disk?
>>
>> --
>>
>> HP Pavilion V9000 Entertainment Laptop
>> Vista Home Premium/dual core 1.8/160GB/2GB ram/335MB Graphic/17"
>> widescreen
>