I've decided to go ahead and reinstall Vista onto my laptop. Since I don't have any vista install DVDs I'll have to use my recovery disks that HP sent me. Which means I'll have to go through and remove all the bloatware that HP thinks I need. This will of course mean that I need to reinstall everything that I had on there. First thing though is saving all my data that I have on XP to my jump drive first.

I can't seem to get the sound working in XP and since I can't even get the ethernet working in Linux I'm left with little choices. Basically I just want to be able to use everything my laptop has. I'm tired to trying to fight with it to get things to run. Plus this will give me a chance to try out Vista and a new platform to test out projects on.