This is just great.  As the mobo in my current rig is on the fritz, I bought a new dual-core Athlonx2 HP Pavilion.  Now, I want to partition the hard drive, as only idiots keep everything on the C:/ drive.  However, HP in its infinite wisdom, will not let me partition the drives.  After partitioning the drive with Partition Commander, I reboot, when suddenly my machine asks for the rescue discs.  I pop it in, and it uninstalls my partitions, and loads the stock WinXP Media center 2005, and all of the other useless junk.  I am tempted to go and buy XP Pro, and install that.  Does anyone have an easy solution besides a sledgehammer?  Thanks, -Starkdog