Simple Simon wrote:

I've done a little reading on some of
the tech groups and there's letters to the effect
that HP does something to their disks when they
are imaged that prevents partitioning. What a drag!

Might be something like...

http://www.interex.org/hpworldnews/hpw203/06news.html

....which says...

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HP still bundles recovery software, but instead of burning it on a CD-ROM,
the company places the files on dedicated partitions of the computers' hard
disks. The recovery software takes up seven CD-ROMs or nearly 4.5 gigabytes
of space on Pavilion hard drives. The partition is hidden and
write-protected so the consumer cannot accidentally erase it.
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