Brave or foolish
I decided this that my old HP laptop has become too slow and full of junk, it was time to nuke it and start again.
The slight problem is that it seems the HP recovery CDs don’t work. They create a ‘hibernate’ partition, write the special diagnostics software and then just flash a cursor at you. Not very helpful at all.
Looks like it’s going to be Linux getting installed, I just hope I can find a driver for the wacky built-in modem.