(clug-talk) Restoration Disks

[steven K]

I recently bought a new computer and they gave me a restoration disk instead of an installation disk. I wanted to duel boot with linux and windows, and this restoration disk erases all partitions and takes my whole drive for itself. Man what a pain! I think the only thing I can do is shrink the windows partition with partition magic. Is that what they do with new computers nowdays? Just give you a restoration disk?