Hello collegues, I have been having these strange encounter with the new hp laptop models mentioned above. it comes with windows 7 preinstalled and does not come with the restore plus discs either for windows 7 or xp thus one cannot reinstall the laptops. I googled and according to hp sites it states that one has to order for the recovery discs for windows 7 or xp. It does however have the recovery options for using the F11 keys to restore the system to factory settings. I think these discs are important when one needs to perform a repair the operating system or in the event one replaces the hard disc. This is abit strange.Desktops are very ok since all the discs are present. Any tips,any hp consultant out there? Even if this is a step of cubing piracy,.....they should have all the discs shipped together with the laptops. And any tools available for partitioning windows 7 apart from shrinking the partitions? I tried using hirens boot disc but it messesd up my system.Please avoid hirens on windows 7 for partitoning...or maybe someone has a fix to this as well.. Cheers! -- WALLACE NGENE TARURU wallacengene@gmail.com