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Hello everyone. Sorry if this have been posted before, if so could anyone link to it? Anyway I just got a Vista Home Premium from Compaq. It's setup and everything is running fine but I have all these unneeded functions and programs that I would like to remove. Unfortunately my laptop came with a recover hard drive partition instead of a CD. But on top of that this hard drive partition is locked! I would like to customize my own Vista installation but I can't see the system files, so I was wondering if it were possible to open this partition and get a copy of the Vista system files for my own vista installation? It seems it is not a program but rather a rootkit that makes sure that I don't open the folders on the recover partition. Any way to remove and evade this thing? Sorry don't have the biggest knowledge on this... tl;dr Possible to open a recover hard drive partition?