[quote]Originally posted by Ya_know:
<strong>Talk to your vendor, or the manufacture of the laptop. See if you can get a full version of XP, so you can perform the repair. This is something you should have, period. Don’t allow them to give you any run-around.</strong><hr></blockquote>

obviously you don't work for an oem company. the recovery cd is all you are allowed to give a customer with a brand new machine now. the only way a customer can get a full xp/2k/98/me cd now is by purchasing the retail copy at a higher price than the oem version.