Well after 2 weeks of struggling and trying I have finally got my main computer back up and operational to start again on my black hat ventures. About 2 weeks ago I received some nasty malware on my computer that pretty much shut down my whole computer and would not let me do any sort of restore so I went to get my reboot cd's and guess what... they where MIA. So after spending $22.50 and dealing with HP Support since the last CD wouldn't work (turned out to be dirt on the cd and support saying I needed to pay a $99.99 warranty fee) I finally got my baby running. Lesson for everyone, run anti virus at least once a day and also don't pay a $99.99 warranty fee to HP since they probably put dirt on the CD at the factory to scam people to get hard earned money out of their pockets.
or you could download your own windows cd and not use their crappy cds! or dont buy a hp! i did and never will again, they are garbage, support is garbage.
uh links, what does a link have to do with any of this, or how the support is, or how horribly their hardware is put together?