Quoting starkers, reply 17That's one thing I never liked about laptops... the recovery partition instead of a disc.
That is the standard for any mass produced computer these days be it a notebook or desktop.
By the way did you get a OS disk with the sale?
I don't buy proprietary brand desktop PC's [always build my own] and I don't own a laptop, though the missus does. We each have a netbook with a recovery partition, but those have no ROM drive anyhow. I suppose, though, if I really wanted to do away with the recovery partition, I could always mount an OS install on a bootable USB stick.. or plug in an external DVD ROM.
Nope, no OS disc came with it. No biggie though, I have my own W7 Pro disc 64 bit. I did a variation on the upgrade. Booted up, put the install disc for W7 in the tray, opened it up, clicked on setup.exe and boom, four hours later after I did a backup restore from my external HDD, all folders skins and other nice stuff. Did a reinstall of WB, DX, CFX, which BTW is working now,
Hopefully all will work as it should from now on... here's wishing you all the best with it.
But, knock wood, all is good in the land of insane folks.......
Like starkers and a few others who should remain nameless but
'Ere, who are you calling insane? I'll have you know that I'm as sane as the next person. Ask anyone at the asylum, they'll tell ya. 
