Is it legal for a OEM to not furnish a way to restore the OS from external media? My latest purchase has no restore disks, no option to burn them from
hidden partition, or even a restore DVD they can sell you.
Is a hidden partion as the only restore method legal? I am totally not
protected from a hardrive failure.
What good is a license to use the OS for as long as the system exists if you
do not get a restore media?
Re: OEM OS Question ... It creates a hidden partition that you can restore from on harddisk. ... > media, like CD-Rs? ... > The "Phenoiex" recovery program.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Reformatting and Losing My Media Edition2005 ... Microsoft requires all PC manufacturers to provide some way to restore a PC ... This can be an OEM XP CD, system restore cd or a hidden partition on the ...Media Center edition from wherever it is currently stored. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
RE: Media Center no longer working after system restore ... to wonder if I did something wrong during my System Restore!... If this key isn't in the registry, open Windows Notepad and paste the ... also had a raid failure with an asr restore. ...Media Center I get an error stating "Media Center only works on Windows XP ... (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
Re: restore CD, what exactly is it? ... There is a hidden partition on the hard ... - EMachines - used to provide media....System Restore), users are cheated out of optional components (like ntbackup ... A CD that will reload system files,... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
Re: Restricted Content Message on old MCE Recordings ... Let us know if the restore from Recycle operation also restores the license info - I personally don't know, since I never had to deal with that aspect of it. ... I did try shutting down the media center service and copying them back, but that didn't restore the license info. ... Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP... It just left me with not being able to view older recordings.... (microsoft.public.windows.mediacenter)
