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August 2, 2006

the notebook story, part 3

a.k.a. Installing WinXP according to HP’s logic…
HP shipped the notebook with the usual recovery DVD which contains a pre-installed WinXP environment. Upon insertion into the dvd drive, it tries to overwrite the whole harddisk with a single partition. Why? Because the notebook came shipped with a single partition. A full 80 GB partition (ok, ~74 [...]

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