R&R partition

[wareynolds]

Few questions.

1. I want to do a clean install of XP. Now I am not sure I want/care to keep the R&R partition. If not, can I just reformat the whole thing and start from scratch and not have to do all that rigamaroll in the other threads?

2. If I do not keep it and do want to go back to factory I can just use restore media (I would have to create) or is the restore image not on the DVD but on the drive.

3. If I do keep it, can I change the image that I will restore from the Factory default to a version more to my liking? ie uninstall a lot of their software and have my own in the image?

4. If I set up multi boot, can I get restore to only restor one partition?

Thanks.