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Does any OEM company include restore discs?

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Compman55

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Dell was the only company to acutally include genuine indiviual copys of their OS and drivers, do any companies include these today? HP for example use the damn recovery parition, which is great unless the hard drive dies. Not to mention if I were to ever buy a product from them (which I won't) I would feel cheated....

I am not buying from an OEM, but a friend will be soon and I want to help them make the decision on which brand.
 
I haven't seen any OS install disks with any recent PCs other than Dell business PCs.

Yeah, I think it sucks.

If friends order non-Dell PCs, I tell them to make a system image backup ASAP. But they never do.
 
Dell still provides An OS Disk, Driver Disk, Software already installed disk and a Restore partition.

No others do that I know of.
 
pcgeek11 said:
Dell still provides An OS Disk, Driver Disk, Software already installed disk and a Restore partition.
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I'm not sure that Dell ALWAYS provides a restore partition. In the past, some models had it and others not. But I don't know Dell's current practice.
 
Compman55 said:
I am not buying from an OEM, but a friend will be soon and I want to help them make the decision on which brand.
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This shouldn't be a deciding factor for your friend, just because you think it's a big deal. For the average person a restore partition works just as well as a disk.
 
M0RPH said:
This shouldn't be a deciding factor for your friend, just because you think it's a big deal. For the average person a restore partition works just as well as a disk.
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i agree...but i do regular backups and make system images.

you can usually tack it on for $10 or so anyway...which i think is crap, but it is an option
 
M0RPH said:
For the average person a restore partition works just as well as a disk.
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Not when the hard drive fails or when they want to use an Upgrade-Only version of Windows to later upgrade their PC.

It's a huge PITA for folks who have to fix these things for others.
 
RebateMonger said:
Not when the hard drive fails or when they want to use an Upgrade-Only version of Windows to later upgrade their PC.

It's a huge PITA for folks who have to fix these things for others.
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Well if we are talking about HP, when setting up the computer you are strongly recommended to make recovery disc(s), which is an OS disc. If someone chooses not to and later has hd failure they can always call HP and get the disc(s). Upgrading Windows is not a problem if your computer is working and Windows is on the hd.
 
On an HP laptop, when in windows you can make the restore CDs. They do not come with the computer. If you reformat/delete the recovery partition I don't think you can make them anymore. You can also order the CDs for like $15.

I am not sure but I think my gateway laptop came with the restore CDs.
 
ImDonly1 said:
On an HP laptop, when in windows you can make the restore CDs. They do not come with the computer. If you reformat/delete the recovery partition I don't think you can make them anymore.
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In my experience with home clients, NOBODY makes those recovery CDs. I've never, ever, run into anybody with a failed hard drive who'd made the required HP recovery CDs.
 
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M0RPH said:
Upgrading Windows is not a problem if your computer is working and Windows is on the hd.
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Sorry. I meant that if they've upgraded to, say, Vista or Win7 and then have a hard drive failure. Now they have an Upgrade-only copy of Windows that won't work. That's when they post in these Forums because their Microsoft disk won't let them re-install Windows.
 
My Lenovo came with a copy of Microsoft's "Anytime Upgrade" DVD. I used that with my good TechNet key # to upgrade from Business to Ultimate. After that I imaged the entire drive to an external.
 
I just ordereda Dell Zino and it came with the windows 7 Premium disk, the Zino 7 driver disk, microsoft works disk.
 
A friend received a new MSI Wind Nettop and, despite Newegg reviews indicating the contrary, there was no XP Recovery Disk nor XP Install Disk, nor software to create one, nor instructions on how to get one. There was only a system recovery partition, which is useless if the hard disk fails.
 
Even though I'm still pissed at ASUS for the moment, until I get a functioning laptop back...they provide an OS Disk and Drivers for their laptops that have optical drives.
 
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