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Not A Graceful Recovery For HP Customers

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Need CDS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Restore your system here, CDS fresh and cheap!

  2. Re:Long overdue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I have a Packard Bell computer"

    I would never admit that.

  3. Re:Long overdue by scumdamn · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually, you won't buy another Packard Bell because they're out of business. NEC bought them and then killed the name. Packard Bell was always a joke but I have to admit, they made the best first computer possible. Everyone who bought a second computer knew exactly what they wanted:
    Anything as long as it's not a Packard Bell.