Not A Graceful Recovery For HP Customers

Posted by timothy on Saturday February 16, 2002 @08:42AM from the you'd-better-be-good-and-crashed dept.

An alert reader named michael pointed out this article running at Infoworld on the policy instated by HP of supplying actual Windows XP backup media for their Pavilion only if owners really, really need them. While HP and other vendors have been moving to recovery partitions for a little while, it seems like HP customers have to jump through particular hoops to demonstrate they really need physical media, and aren't very happy about it. The article makes a good point too regarding the installation of Linux partitions. The banner ad on the page is for --guess what? -- Windows XP.

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straight from the factory to you... by spacefem · 2002-02-16 08:48 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I never would have bought an HP anyway, sometimes I think anyone who isn't building their own computer isn't smart enough to know to re-install their OS every so often just to keep their system clean.

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Re:this would tick me off by marktwain · 2002-02-16 16:30 · Score: 0, Flamebait

At least you're not having to reinstall WinXP daily. ;)

It sounds to me like HP has hired a new Harvard MBA. Sounds like an "innovative" business plan to me to shave yet another dollar off the bottom line.