MK> TW>  My older Hewlett Packard Pavilion 4455 Computer has on booting Setup
MK> TW>  avaialble at a key press.
MK> TW> I have wroked with several HP's, including a Vectra VL, from that
MK> TW> time
MK> TW> frame and NONE had the Hidden Partition.

MK>Neither have I but the older servers required boot floppies to access the bi
MK> I already said this and nothing about any hidden partitions on HP's.

 IF you want to go way back in the PC wrold that was very common.
 Quite a numbewr of the Early BIOS chips did NOT have the setup built
 in.
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