Hi, apologies if this is covered elsewhere but from the search I did I couldn't find anything. I have a 120Gb hard drive Aspire One running Linpus. I'm interested in experimenting with other operating systems (XP and Ubuntu), but whilst I have installed XP on other PC's in the past I'm still fairly new to this sort of thing, and more than a bit nervous! Before I start messing around I'd like to understand how the recovery disc works, and specifically will it repartition and reformat the disc if I have messed around with partitions and formatting myself? Basically, will it be able to restore the to the original out-of-the-box state with linpus no matter what I've done to the disc, or does it rely on the partitions and formatting being okay? By the way, I have a USB DVD drive, so i don't need to concern myself with recovery USB sticks. If anyone knows exactly how the recovery disc works then I'd be grateful for the information!