Yesterday I got a free upgrade to Windows Vista Home Premium in the mail. I just couldn't resist it, beings I was already thinking about buying it from walmart or somewhere. So, I did it. Now my laptop is way slower than it used to be, and I really really want my Windows XP Professional Media Center EDITION BACK! Vista looks cool and all, but I really love my other. So it's either buy more memory to make Vista run properly or go back to my old, which I want to do. Question is, can I? I don't have any recovery cds with my laptop, because it has a recovery hard drive PARTION thing instead. It RESTORES the laptop back to the way it was when I bought it, and I've used it before. (Before getting Vista.) So I figured that if I didn't like Vista, that's all I would have to do. Restore. Ok so now when I go to my computer, I click on the hard drive thing that has my recovery partion, then I click on the file "RECOVERY", and it's empty. i'm really scared that i am stuck with vista. ANY help would be appreciated. By the way my laptop is a Hp PAVILION dv6000, WAS running windows xp professional media center edition. But it is now Windows Vista Home Premium lol thanks reboot press f10 to recover and see if that helps if not contact hp and order some recovery cdsRead the below site.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925809If you can no longer see the Recovery partition than Vista has possibly hidden it or you deleted it inadvertantly when installing Vista...

Either way unlovedwarrior's suggestions are probably you're best bet.Quote from: unlovedwarrior on June 05, 2007, 05:13:22 PM

reboot press f10 to recover and see if that helps if not contact hp and order some recovery cds