"Curious" wrote in message
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The recovery partition for my HP Laptop consumed 6 DVDs, since there is a
lot of other software that comes with the computer besides Vista and none
of the software is in same "compressed" format that is used in a Vista
installation DVD.



But the OP stated that he purchased the software direct from MS - MS
wouldn't include all the apps that an OEM vendor would...

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