Re: OEM OS Question

"Tom" <tomtk3@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:q4SdnaYJyuUWYDfenZ2dnUVZ_tCdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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?


You won't get specific questions because you gave no specifics. We don't know how whatever UNNAMED manufacturer provides for recovery. Could be you get a recovery CD that is either a bastardized setup program or just a partition image. Could be the recovery program is in a hidden partition and you are supposed to read the manual to figure out how to copy those files onto a CD-R or run some utility to create separate recovery CDs. There are as many ways to perform OEM recoveries as there are manufactures and models of computers. Why not ask whomever built your computer (if not already described in the manual)?

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