Yesterday, Kenneth E. Lussier gleaned this insight:
> I have to disagree with this. The average home user does re-install, but
> they are prevented from learning anything. When they buy a system, they
> get a "rescue disk". All they can do is put the CD in, and the system is
> rebuilt to it's original form. The install is scripted for them, so they
> don't have the oppertunity to learn new things.
That's a REALLY good point Ken... my dad has done this several times, and
I've known a few other people that have done it once or twice. When you
buy a system from one of the biggies (Dell, Compaq, etc.) you get one of
these rescue CDs, which as Kenny says, rebuilds the computer to the
default factory installation.
Aside from the fact that this isn't really what most users want,
unsuspecting users may find all their data deleted with no way to recover
it. Granted there usually is some comment in some documentation that this
will happen, but it should be abundantly clear when you begin this process
that that is what will happen. My dad lost all his business's data the
first time he had to do this. He was not a happy man.
--
You know that everytime I try to go where I really want to be,
It's already where I am, cuz I'm already there...
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