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I am trying to recover my Sony R505 to its original state using the System recovery cds that were included with it. However, a while ago the first 3GB (or so) of my hard drive went bad. I made a blank partition there and sized the others down so that I wouldn't have to buy a new hard drive. The recovery CD seems to insist on resizing my hard drive (even though I do have an option to select the sizes). I am not sure what to do so that I can re-install the original OS (XP Home), for I am selling it w/o my copy of XP Professional on it. Any ideas would be appricated. Thank you.

Jon