Hi,

A friend has just purchased a brand new Toshiba laptop that has Pro already installed. It also came with a recovery disc. A quick look at the user manual makes no reference how to use the disc. Is it just an image of how it left the factory?

The other thing is they would like to partition the drive giving 15GB dedicated to Windows and the remaining for data. I realise I have to re-install Windows to do this as 1) they don't want to use third party partitioning tools and 2) toshiba warn you that you will loose their recovery partition should you try.

My questions to you guys are:

1) Would it be just like a desktop where you boot to the CD and install from there?
2) Is the Toshiba recovery disc likely to be the full Pro content?
3) Would you leave the recovery partition in place?- It uses up 2GB.

Thanks for looking