Well, I got it up and running sort of. I chose to do an f8 on startup, perform Start from previous configuration, and let it go until it started the restart loop hangup. I then ended the FBISM process which then makes the machine not shutdown. I then let it update with the HP and Windows updates and also performed a BIOS update. My problem now is the HDD0 is configured as C: Boot 24.02Gig, and 87.7 is unallocated. HP had a fix as being that Vista does not report the proper HDD partion sizes and you perform a "Shrink and Expand" procedure. However, mine willl not perform that function. Any other ideas that might work?