Install of WinXP on C: while maintaing pre-existing recovery parti

[Guest]

So here's an interesting dilemma. I recently purchased an HP A6110n system
that comes pre-installed with Windows Vista Home Premium. It had been my
intent to install WinXP on the system so that WinXP was the primary operating
system (residing at C:\) and Win Vista resided on some other drive letter.
Of course, I should have realized that because they don't just give you a
copy of Win Vista, but rather a recovery partition, there was no real way to
accomplish this, and if you wanted to use the Win Vista OS that came with the
system, you'd have to do it on C:\. So, given that, I decided to just blow
away Win Vista altogether and go with WinXP. However, I want to keep the
recovery partition just in case I opt to go back to Win Vista in the future.
However, it seems that if I blow away the Vista partition, keep the recovery
partition, and then install WinXP on the new partition that I create from the
old Vista partition, it puts it as D:\ and puts the recovery partition as
C:\. How do I keep the recovery partition but yet install WinXP on the C:\
drive? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

- marc

 

[John John]

Try using a third party utility (like BootItNG) and hide the the
Service/Recovery Partition. If this is a brand new computer you may as
well call HP right now and ask for a set of Recovery Disks, trust me
sooner or later you will need them, better getting them now than in 3 or
4 years when the disk or service partition toast!

John