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I'll play devils advocate as well. I've got a 3 yr old HP so I've had some experience with what you're going through. Mine has a 40 gig HD with over 4 going to the recovery partition. I also have the recovery CD set, all 8 discs.The OS does not appear to be on any 1 disc, but all 8 must be installed sequentially. After using the comp for a couple of weeks and uninstalling more crap software than I knew existed, I looked into doing a recovery. It's much easier on an HP to do a recovery by using F10 while booting than using the CD's. Note all the BS software before doing this and uninstall it immediately after recovery. I know someone who was able to obtain the recovery discs for HP for free- their system came with none, like yours. With a third party application you could eliminate the offending partition. I bet you got yours cheap too, right.
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