I bought a HP laptop last year, and they give you the option of creating *one copy* of a recovery DVD set.  It creates about 3 DVDs for Windows Vista.  <br><br>As for partitions, I&#39;ve used the Linux tool GParted to shrink Windows partitions without messing them up.  You&#39;ll need to boot from a live CD like Ubuntu.  Then go to;<br>
System / Administration / Partition Editor<br><br>Asante.<br><br>Erick<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 5:58 AM, wallace ngene <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:wallacengene@gmail.com">wallacengene@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
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Any tips,any hp consultant out there? Even if this is a step of cubing<br>
piracy,.....they should have all the discs shipped together with the<br>
laptops.<br>
And any tools available for partitioning windows 7 apart from<br>
shrinking the partitions? I tried using hirens boot disc but it<br>
messesd up my system.Please avoid hirens on windows 7 for<br>
partitoning...or maybe someone has a fix to this as well..<br>
Cheers!<br>
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