Re: restore CD, what exactly is it?
- From: "GTS" <x>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:44:42 -0400
- HP does not provide any media. There is a hidden partition on the hard
drive for restore. This is, of course, useless in the event of a hard drive
crash and a thoroughly unacceptable practice in my view.
- Dell used to provide a true XP CD (OEM version), and discontinued the
practice several months ago, with some exceptions for the business division.
They provide a one time mechanism to burn an OS CD and, allegedly, will
provide one free on request.
- EMachines - used to provide media. Don't know currently.
Vendor recovery disks and partitions vary and you have to research the
specifics. Some recovery media will only perform a full destructive
reinstall and others may be used for repair or reinstall.
The failure to provide a standard OS CD is a practice all consumers should
complain about loudly. It may be needed for troubleshooting (like a boot to
System Restore), users are cheated out of optional components (like ntbackup
for XP HOME), hidden partitions are useless in a disk failure, etc. etc. It
is widely believed that this practice is due, in part, to pressure from
Microsoft no to include media that could possibly be pirated, though
specifics on this are hard to come by. Clearly it is also driven by profit
for the manufacturer to save a few dollars. I appreciate the tight margins
in the business, but this is a little like not including a spare tire and
jack with a new car.
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<williams12345@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It seems that computer manufactures are reducing costs
> by supplying less CDs. I want a windows XP
> machine that will allow me to rebuild the system from
> scratch (after reformatting the disk). I do not want
> a CD that only updates system files for an already
> existing XP installation.
>
> I see that many computers come with a restore CD.
> What exactly is that?
> I can imagine several possibilities:
> 1. A CD that will reload system files, onto an existing
> XP installation. This might be used after
> a virus has removed critical system files, and you
> do not want to install from scratch.
> 2. An image file (.iso) that will rebuild a system from
> scratch (after reformatting the disk).
> This is typically an image of the system
> after it was built at the factory, with all the
> updates and applications.
> 3. A windows XP CD (from MS).
>
> And, sometimes it is called a recover CD.
> Don't know if that is different than a restore CD?
>
> I am looking at emachines, HP, gateway and DELL.
> Can you make any general statements regarding their
> policy on CDs? Such as: HP always provides
> a MS windows CD.
>
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