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[H. A. Story]

That varies from model to model at times.  I have seen this with other 
vendors as well.  I personally HATE the restore CDs and the restore 
partition.  I really think that some manufactures try the Hard disk 
thing every so often and then change back after customers get pissed.  I 
am actually in the market for a laptop these days.  And it looks like my 
budget isn't going to allow for much right now.  But the one of the key 
features I am looking for is booting from the OS CD and being able to 
read the system drive and not just to repartition it so I can reload the 
OS.

I guess, we could go into a bunch of other stupid M$ vendor PC crap but 
this really isn't the place for it.. LOL



Joshua Kite wrote:

> IIRC, the last time I helped someone buy Windows machines from Dell, 
> they did not come with restore CD's.  Instead, the hard drive has 
> partition set aside for restoration purposes.  When I asked my 
> coworkers about this policy from Dell they responded that this was 
> part of M$'s new policy.  I'm not saying that these are legitimately 
> licensed PC's, but I'm not so sure that you're expected to get CD's 
> with a licensed XP machine.
>
> Josh Kite
>
> On 3/12/06, *Howard A Story* <adrin at haswes.homelinux.org 
> <mailto:adrin at haswes.homelinux.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     <snip>  If you by a system and it has windows
>     preloaded you are supposed to get the CDs or it is to be removed
>     before
>     you leave.  I also think that  M$ is not transferable form owner to
>     owner.   I would really suggest looking at M$ website though.  As a
>     general rule I shy away form systems of this nature, unless it comes
>     with all install CDs and license.  Or the vendor can sale me a OEM CD
>     with the system. </snip>
>
>
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