You can access the partition by command prompt but that isn't going to help you slippstream new hotfixes. the recovery partition is a image. you can add the updates to the ones that you pc already adds after reimaging. navigate to d:\I386\Apps and find the folder that contains the batch to install newer updates. edit the bat to include your updates and copy them to the folder. Then after a reformat when the gateway startes installing applications it will include the newer updates. you can also remove demo programs by deleting the .dta file that corisponds to it from D:\I386\apps\dta