Hey guys i recently bought a laptop (HP Pavillion dv9000 ) from my friend, it still has all of his files, downloaded programs, ect on it. I would like to reformat the pc to remove all this extra junk. The PC has a recover partition on it however it is not working correctly, it simply will reboot the PC when ussing Recovery Manager. The primary drive on the PC has been partitioned into 2 drives. The partition with the operating system is still the active partition. Is this perhaps why i am having difficulties in using the recovery partition? Any suggestions on how i can fix the problem i would like to keep the extra partition and use the recovery partition if it all possible. (pc's OS is Vista)