Re: Legal Installation of XP versus "Hard Disk Loading

You're right. I didn't go back far enough in the thread. I thought he was
selling the IBM.

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Larry Samuels wrote:
Hi Kerry,
I think you are misunderstanding the question.
The poster asked about selling another system, not his laptop. The
laptop came into the equation when the requirement of including
original media came up. He was wondering why he had to include
original media when IBM/Lenovo did not do so.


"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
news:ux3HkmlZGHA.4688@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In an earlier post you said IBM had sent you the recovery disk set.
It goes with the laptop as part of the license. If you have the
recovery disk set you don't need the recovery partition. This is a
common scenario when a hard drive crashes. I don't understand what
is so complicated unless for some reason you want to keep the
recovery CD's. They probably won't work on anything else so I don't
know why you'd want them. --
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

ThinkPad Fan wrote:
Thanks for all the explanations. I think I understand now. So to
test my knowledge, If I figure out how to create a recovery
partition with the OS in it like IBM does am I OK? If not, why not?


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