Hi :) There were 2 points about Cds/Dvds as recovery media. 1. An old fella keeps a £2 coin in his bus-pass wallet in case he loses his bus-pass and needs to pay for the ticket. 2. If you need to reinstall Windows then you need the Recovery Media to work otherwise you will have to buy a fresh Install Media which costs around £100-£200.
In addition most non-Windows systems allow you to set-up LiveCd/Dvd, LiveUsb or whatever you want. These can be incredibly useful for repairing a system. Sometimes just access to text-editors and perhaps the internet are more than enough to fix maybe 90% of problems that would complete scupper Windows. Windows doesn't have that option although you can often use a Gnu&Linux Live session to do similar repair work. Another problem with the Windows way is that on non-SSDs the beginning of the drive does read/writes about twice as fast as read/writes done at the end of the drive. The, hopefully, never-to-be-needed partition is put at the front of the drive and the main OS which is used all the time is put later where read/writes are marginally slower. Regards from Tom :) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
