After initial OS installation (WindowsXP) on a HP laptop I created a set of recovery DVDs. The user installed more and more unnecessary programs and remnants after applications removal started to build up, so I decided to revert it to the fresh state after the first run. The important thing is, that
after creating the backup DVDs I resized the first (
system) partition, created another for user files, and removed the HP Recovery partition, because I decided to keep my backups elsewhere. <!--break-->...