[StarShadow]

'Recovery' cd's are evil, they generally don't recover anything, they 'restore' your system to 'like-new' condition (ie. they reformat your HD and re-install the OS, and to hell with whatever else you had installed). As SJ said, it's a good idea to have an OS partition, and an 'everything else' partition. I'm really not impressed in the least by OEM's who give you a 'recovery' cd instead of a proper OS cd, then again I build my systems myself, so that's not really an issue for me lol...