Re: Recovery disk and boot disk

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From: Sharon F (sharonDEL_at_ETEmvps.org)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 21:53:59 -0600

On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 17:47:40 -0800, "joust in jest" <joust in
jest@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Sharon:
>Not quite the same story:
>
> Gateway ships their computers with a bootable OEM verson of Windows of
>on CD. If your hard drive fails, you put in a new hard drive, boot from the
>OEM Windows CD, and install a fresh version of Windows. Notice that there
>is only one CD involved here. If you wish to install other software that
>Gateway ships with their computers, that software is on other CDs with the
>Gateway Logo. If you don't want to install Gateway proprietary software,
>you don't have to.
>
> HP ships their computers with a "recovery" CD that allows you to access
>a hidden partion where HP keeps its restore files (Windows OS as well as all
>of the proprietary junk that HP loads onto their systems). In the event of
>a hard drive failure, the hidden partition is also gone. If you have made
>the six CD Recovery Set (that you can only do once), you can put in a new
>hard drive and use the 6 Recovery CDs to re-create your system (including
>the hidden partition and the installation of all the junk software) on the
>new hard drive. If you have not made a Recovery CD set, you have to contact
>HP and spend twenty bucks (plus shipping) to have them ship you a six-cd
>set.
>
>Hope this helps,
>steve

Sounds like an okay recovery package from Gateway. Compared to HP, it
is like night and day. Now build my desktops and even with the OEM
systems that I've had in the past, I stripped them down, installed
Windows clean. Then added the stuff that I wanted.

 
Sharon F
MS MVP - Windows XP

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