Re: Install CD?

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Alias <aka@[notme]maskedandanonymous.org> wrote in
news:#pCC$O9VGHA.5288@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Olórin wrote:
My mother's just bought a Packard Bell laptop from PC World with XP
Home on, which I'm configuring for her. I've got everything it came
from the shop with and I'm surprised to find there's no XP CD (in
fact, there were *no* CDs!). Is this usual? It's ages since I've
bought a PC...

There's some proprietary Packard Bell feature that lets you roll back
and reinstall stuff, but what if worse comes to worse and for some
reason or other I need to reformat & reinstall the OS? Is it worth
trying to approach PC World and ask for a CD, or would I be on a
hiding to nothing?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.



It's on a hidden partition. Call Packard Bell and ask them how to
access it.

Alias


And while your at it, find out how to create a CD of it, so when that
hidden partition becomes inaccesible, you will still be able to restore.
.

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