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HP’s newest lineup of desktop computers, featuring Media Center PCs with AMD Live! Technology, are hitting retail shelves now, but maybe not for long, at least as far as one model is concerned. The HP MediaCenter m7560n features an AMD Athlon 64 x2 4200+ Processor, 2GB of RAM, and a 320GB Harddrive, beefy specs even for customer builders, but a major oversight during image creation may very well be bringing every one of them back. That glorious 320GB SATA harddive is partitioned, as most HP’s are, in both a standard C: drive and an HP Restore Partition for restoring from system crashes and virus infections. This particular model, however, features just under 300GB of restore partition, all locked away from the user. This leaves about 20GB to use, much less after factoring in the Windows XP Install and slieu of programs HP preloads. Oops!  Hopefully this will be fixed via a software patch, but considering the nature of the problem and the relatively few programs that can successfully resize a partition while preserving data, I’m not so sure a recall isn’t the only viable solution.

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