I recently purchased a Dell with preloaded XP. This is roughly what I needed to do: 1 - contact the manufacturer, and *insist* that since I purchased Windows XP, that I am entitled to an installation CD (I am). They eventually gave in. 2 - remove all partitions (including the Dell "restore partition"), install windows from the CD - partition/format a suitible place for XP to live, and leave the rest as free space. 3 - install fedora. This might seem like a lot of work, but the XP system that Dell pre-loaded was so full of bloatware that it was almost unuseable. Something would pop up every 15 seconds, and heavy-duty apps (blender, games, etc) crawled. The "fresh" XP was (subjectively) twice as fast as the preloaded system. Just my 2 cents... Chris
