It seems like a pretty proprietary restore method. IMO it's not worth the time/effort in trying to redo the restore partition to a clean install. Instead, why not just grab (torrent or otherwise) a clean install image? And there's always Windows 7
Hi & thanks for your reply. Yeah I suppose it is a bit of proprietary method so the alternatives you talk of they all require act*vators, messing about with the bios and such.