The message 20051108094321.GB11826@thebowery.co.uk from Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk contains these words:
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.
Isn't it illegal for a first supplier to sell a computer that has a system on it without the installation CD now?