Hi Jim. Yes. When I got my Dell, I got the os on a disk and the drivers
on another disk. The HD however did have a restore function on it. It
was provided by Norton and if I wanted to revert my machine back to
factory, all I did was press control F11 at boot. It reformatted the
drive back to the day I bought it. Like I said however, Dell also sent
me the complete os on a disk and the drivers on another disk. The Norton
restore function however (maybe it was Ghost, don't know) was lost
forever when I did a manual reformat using Kill Disk. I purchased my PC
direct from Dell. I have two friends who just purchased new HP
computers. One a laptop the other a desktop. One from Best Buy with the
Geek Squad and the other at Wal Mart. They did not receive any disks. If
they want to reformat they do a control and one of the function keys.
All drivers and OS are on the HD.
I prefer having the disks. My friends had the option of purchasing the
Vista OS separately as well as a disk with drivers but they chose not
to. I am still running XP Pro. I need a new computer if I want Vista. I
am very satisfied with Dell and my next purchase will be a Dell.
Mick
jpurcell wrote:
>
> Mick,
> > . I reformatted and put the oem version on.
>
> Do I correctly assume that your only option is reformat, not a rescue
> disk or system. The computer companies have gone back and fourth on
> the kind of rescue system. First they were rescue disks with the OS
> and bundled applications and of course hardware drivers. Then the
> tried to save the cost of the disks by putting some kind of rescue
> partition on the computers. But my last two PCs have gone back to
> rescue disks. I'm guessing that too many users managed to wipe the
> rescue partition. I managed to do that on my brothers computer.
>
> My response was to get Norton Ghost and then clone the C partition to
> a spare other partition on the drive. That has worked fairly well.
>
> Jim
> Dell PC
> Gateway
> Mac Pro
> Mac MINI
>
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