In a message dated 8/2/2003 7:17:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time, weaverdj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Funny that they now come from the same corporate structure. > > One big thing that I don't like with the new HP/Compaqs is that they > don't come with recovery discs. All the recovery stuff is on a > partition on the hard drive. How they get away with this when you're to > be given a hard copy of any software they put on is beyond me. If the > HD fails you're stuck shelling out $50 or so dollars for a recovery CD > with the OS on it. (that's after warranty). > My wife called costomer service and requested a disc and they said they would send one.I'll let you know when we get it. To unsub or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ For more info: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=pctechtalk