[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by entwisi

so when your hard disk dies just how are you going to restore it.

You should be able to pop a new disk in and restore to it

Tell that to HP! As I said I am not a particularly happy bunny about this but it never occurred to me to ask if there was a recovery disc before I bought the thing. I did ask everything I could think of asking and some of the questions got very vague answers from the sales staff who obviously didn't know what I was talking about. eg:

Me: And what about the grsaphics card?
Them: I think it's got one, oh yes there's a sticker on it says 'NVIDIA'