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Old 01-14-2008   #4 (permalink)
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Re: New computers come without Op Sys CDs

The HP PCs come with everything required to rebuild the PC contained in a
recovery partition and they give you the ability to dump this recovery
partition to DVDs so that you can completely rebuild the system if required.
"KingMe" <KingMe@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am ready to buy a new computer, probably HP, but it is my understanding
> that regardless of manuf., computers no longer come with CDs for the Oper
> Sys
> (like Vista, or XP).
> In the event of a hard drive crash, how would a recovery take place? What
> are the options?
> --
> Using of Win XP Pro, FrontPage 2002, Outlook XP, Word-PowerPoint-Publisher
> 2002, Word 2002
> AMD Athlon 1.2, 512mb mem, 80GB disk, DVD and CD burners.
>
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