On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 11:55:05PM +0000, Steve Fosdick wrote:
I think the manufactuers figure that if the hard disk fails the machine will be returned to a repair shop who will also have the install disks but, as you say, it is a pity they don't spend the 10p and have an install disk that would mean a technically capable owner can just order a new disk and restore his own machine.
A freind of mine was recently asking about recovery CDs or install CDs for his HP desktop of about 2 years vintage (he had installed some "system recovery" software off a magazine coverdisc that had managed to unrecover his copy of Windows XP home). Anyhow, after some phone calls etc. etc. it turns out that HP don't (well, didn't then) ship recovery CDs for Windows and that it would cost 45 quid to get a set of them.
Thanks Adam