Ok so I bought this laptop 2 years ago and its served me faithfully. I figured though that i need to reformat it and do all the recovery stuff since it hasnt happened since i bought it and get it nice and ready for school. so i backed up all my stuff, and then when i tried to make recovery disks, that didt work so well. It didt work so well because i deleted that recovery partition to mess around with linux . Now im currently unable to find disks, i could order them from HP for $16 but im not too excited about that idea and i have a vista basic disk (because my laptop was "vista ready") another idea im not too enthralled with. any other ideas besides making it a full linux machine??