My hard drive died last month, and since my OS restore was on a partition on it I had to buy an OS as well as a new drive. I figured I might as well go ahead with Vista. After many frustrating hours of error messages when trying to install I finally landed on an article that explained that Vista doesn't like the combination of Asus motherboard and Sata hard drive that came with my PC. So, I had to buy a copy of XP, which loaded up fine first try.
I would have never bought a PC without OS discs, but after Katrina the whole city was replacing computers at the same time and a display model HP at Staples was the only one available
