[Eagle of Liberty]

I am officially with you. Your timing is impeccable. Recently bought a Dell laptop with Windows XP installed. Received NO system disk or recover disk. My hard drive just recently stopped working and I cannot get into it because, unknown to me, it was set up with a FAT32 partition. Now, I have to buy a recover disk and a new hard drive, lost all data, and I have to reconfigure.

[mnehring]

I am officially with you... My hard drive just recently stopped working... Now, I have to buy a recover disk and a new hard drive, lost all data, and I have to reconfigure.

[Liaison]

I had the same problem with a Sony Viao. The OS crashed do to a recommended update by Microsoft to load roll-up 2 for Microsoft programs for MS Media edition 2005. Later I found out AFTER the crash, from deep within Microsoft FAQ files, that i should not have loaded the roll-up on a Sony Viao for it would do that (lost the use of all my optical drives). All i could get from Sony was a “ghost” copy of the OS to reset my new hard drive to factory spec from a year and a half ago.

!!!What’s pissing me off is that I now have to use roll-up 2 to load media player 11. the same set of programs that killed my comp in the first place!!!!