The deal is that to get Tablet functionality you need XP Tablet Edition,
which was never sold to consumers, only OEMs. Beyond that each manufacturer
supplies drivers specific to a particular Tablet model. If HP didn't produce
XP drivers for your model, you would be losing a lot of functionality.

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Sven
MVP Mobile Devices
"Beverly Howard [Ms-MVP/MobileDev]" <BevNoSpamBevHoward.com> wrote in
message news:%23p$CPApjIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> >> I have a copy of XP Pro with SP2. <<
>
> Suggest searching this forum as, in essence, the tablet functionality will
> be lost if you go this route.
>
> Per the posts, your only legal option is to purchase an XP recovery disk
> from the oem... if that is even possible.
>
> To search this group, use
> http://groups.google.com/group/micro...tabletpc?hl=en
>
> Beverly Howard [MS MVP-Mobile Devices]