also found this if you live in uk http://www.broadband-help.com/cm_reviews.asp as you can see you're paying way too much

the people at compaq are really clever. u see, they assemble a pc and put the recovery partition on the same drive as the operating system and all other stuff. in BIOS i can't run System Recovery so I am already quite worried that the Recovery partition has been corrupted and consequently the rest of the drive. How many plates do u reckon a 160GB HDD is on? I had to get DSL in a rush and wasnt quite thinking about the long term consequences of my poor 6GB/month download. The jungle is called United Kingdom, I know man

80gb/platter on my samsung sp1604n... so that's 2 total

so if one is damaged, the other one may still be readable?

i guess so, sounds logic to me

true, but is the OS spread over 2 platters?

no idea. prolly some of it must be in the beginning of 1.st platter.