Most new computers do not comes with recovery CD set. Instead, the manufacturer puts the information on a partition on the hard drive. You should have an option to make a recovery CD set. Do yourself a favor and make one. It will be necessary to have that recovery CD set should you have a need to reinstall everything. You can access the recovery feature without making a CD set but be advised, this won't happen in the event of a hard drive failure.
I just bought this thing and after I got it all set up I went to defragmenter and it shows 2 drives : hp recovery (D
FAT32 and hp (C:), the old one had system recovery also but everything was on the C drive, is that a partition thing? Also, the belarc thing shows that I have a P4 2.93 gig processor but the box said it ia a celeron D. I was just getting used to the old one, now i feel really ignorant. Guess i will always be 4 or 5 years behind on this tech stuff,o well, I'm a dinosaur. And I have no idea why those smiley faces showed up on there either, JEEZ!

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