IMHO *all* PCs should come with physical recovery media. And by that I
mean an XP disk and a driver/apps disk.
Chris Reeves wrote:
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.
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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?
