On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Eben King wrote: > I think so. I've never dealt with the Recovery CD, but it _might_ restore > the HPA as well as hda1 if you use it. The opposite I think - the Recovery CD puts the HPA on a blank disk - you can then restore XP into hda1 using the standard procedure (and it will respect any size constraint you put on that partition).