Subj : Re: WinXP Backup CD
To   : Marty Blankenship
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Fri Jan 30 2004 09:34 am

-=> Marty Blankenship wrote to All <=-

 MB> I bought a computer about 1 year ago and it came with WinXP home
 MB> installed on it. It came with no CD's but the recovery is located on a
 MB> FAT32 partition as drive D. Is there a way to copy this recovery
 MB> partition to a CD to use as a recovery CD or will I have to purchase
 MB> the CD from the manufacturer. The reason I am asking is the warranty is
 MB> about to run out and I have already had to send the tower back to HP
 MB> due to the hard drive failing after just 1 month.


I would be very careful... a few years ago, I bought a Compaq notebook that had 
the restore stuff (for WinME) on a D: partition. I contacted Compaq tech 
support, and asked if it was OK to back it up to a CD and erase it from the 
hard drive... they said it was.

When I had problems, and tried to restore, it didn't work.

By the way-- if the HD failed after a month, shouldn't you have made a warranty 
claim then?
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