severedsolo said:
How did you create the recov. partition? Did you use my tutorial? (just curious )
This one? Erm ... no. It seems I have to play by HP's rules on this box, so I used their (likely equally bs proprietary) solution. Rest assured, when/if it fails again I will do it a proper way!

severedsolo said:
Your very welcome, I'm just sorry I couldn't be of more help
Nonsense. Without your insanely fast response time, I likely would still be on a support line with HP/otherwise, suffering 30th degree murder as my life dwindled away searching for parts I didn't need.