Or, the greatest crock: PCs that prompt you to insert blank CDs to "burn your own" recovery media (ala HP) and keep it in a Fat32 hidden partition.. Which is great because it guarantees XP can't find itself on an attempted repair install.
And, if the HDD goes bad, or has bad sectors, you waste tons of time recovering out data and doing a re-install. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- FIGHT BACK AGAINST SPAM! Download Spam Inspector, the Award Winning Anti-Spam Filter http://mail.giantcompany.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben Ruset > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:57 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] SATA II > > You have to order the recovery media for Dell > Inspirons/Dimensions now. > It's not bundled with the machine. > > I have heard of people who called up tech support and they > sent them the media overnight for free. I paid the $10 to get > the media with my Inspiron 700m. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have to concede that where there is not a good, honest, > affordable > > local computer shop/dealer, you are better off with Dell. > After all, > > it is Dell, and Gateway that allow you to recover hardware drivers > > from CD's they provide. Hewlett Packard, eMachine and > Compaq make you > > run the whole restore process. Or do any of you know how to extract > > hardware drivers from Hewlett Packard, eMachine and Compaq > restore CD's? >
