On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 8:31 PM, Steve Stamm <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike, > > >>opportunity to burn a "recovery disc" DVD. > > Wow. I think I'd make sure not to buy a computer that has those > stipulations. Sounds like they are charging you an arm and a leg for > something you aren't getting. Without the disks if you change the > configuration of your machine significantly by adding hardware > accelerated graphics hardware or add a Raid array for example you might > not be able to load your OS. With a laptop you might not really run into > that problem but with desktops... I have recovery disks for my laptop, > I'll have to try to load them on a VM. That would be interesting. Have > you ever tried it? > > Steve
Steve, As Mandy said, it's the license for the OS that you pay for; they're not required to provide a backup or original copy. I haven't been able to do anything with the recovery discs; they mainly allow the machine access to the locked "recovery partition" on the hard drive, where all the good stuff is actuall stored. And no, I haven't figured out how to get into those folders and files, either. -- Mike Hungerford http://users.sdccu.net/chthulhu2/models.html Fools! I will destroy you all! (Ask me how!) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
