A friend of mine asked me for some hints while she was going to buy a new notebook. After one month she finally bought an HP notebook, "powered" by Windows Media Center... blargh... Although it's just Win XP Pro SP2 plus some really lame app, the notebook was equipped with the famous license sticker, but no Windows cd was available! What if I wanted (and I wanted) to format the hd and starting with a fresh install of winxp? We all know that every computer which comes with Windows pre-installed is plenty of obsolete software and other crap (like the 6.0 version of acrobat reader and the almost-latest version of Norton something... trial or not..).. why should I accept this? No cd was included with the notebook, even a recovery disk. But you can BURN some discs by using the HP utility on the notebook itself... which burns some data which is present on some ghost partition and will restore the old app&crap... is that kind of things fair? I don't think so... Infact I contacted HP personally and I asked for the real and original WinXP MC CD for my friend.. and that's what they answered: "your product is a "consumer" one, so it's sold with a bundle license. This means that your product is guaranteed and supported if and only if it matches the original hardware and software configuration. The system also provides a way to create a set of rescue disks, including the os and the drivers and the applications, meant to be used for restoring the system in case of partition erasing. It's because of that that in the original package you won't find the original WinXP MCE disk".
How am I supposed to change the hw config? So, if I install Linux and the hdd fails... I can't get tech support? I'm PAYING the Windows XP License... why shouldn't I obtain the freakin' cd? I got the serial, damn! And in which way, in your humble opinion, the freakin' os can cause the hw damage?
I live in Pisa actually, and I can't stand seeing people trying to push the tower anymore!!! AAAAAAAAAARGH! Try to imagine 300 folks making the same photo at the same time. They look sooooo dumb!
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A friend of mine asked me for some hints while she was going to buy a new notebook.
After one month she finally bought an HP notebook, "powered" by Windows Media Center... blargh...
Although it's just Win XP Pro SP2 plus some really lame app, the notebook was equipped with the famous license sticker, but no Windows cd was available! What if I wanted (and I wanted) to format the hd and starting with a fresh install of winxp?
We all know that every computer which comes with Windows pre-installed is plenty of obsolete software and other crap (like the 6.0 version of acrobat reader and the almost-latest version of Norton something... trial or not..).. why should I accept this?
No cd was included with the notebook, even a recovery disk. But you can BURN some discs by using the HP utility on the notebook itself... which burns some data which is present on some ghost partition and will restore the old app&crap... is that kind of things fair? I don't think so...
Infact I contacted HP personally and I asked for the real and original WinXP MC CD for my friend.. and that's what they answered: "your product is a "consumer" one, so it's sold with a bundle license. This means that your product is guaranteed and supported if and only if it matches the original hardware and software configuration. The system also provides a way to create a set of rescue disks, including the os and the drivers and the applications, meant to be used for restoring the system in case of partition erasing. It's because of that that in the original package you won't find the original WinXP MCE disk".
How am I supposed to change the hw config?
So, if I install Linux and the hdd fails... I can't get tech support?
I'm PAYING the Windows XP License... why shouldn't I obtain the freakin' cd?
I got the serial, damn!
And in which way, in your humble opinion, the freakin' os can cause the hw damage?
HP' support policy is CRAP!
..and we'll nuke Iraq and Iran with the biggest chairs they'll ever see!!!
Goku and Vegeta already did this a long time ago in DragonBall Z or GT... at 500G.
Long life to Trent Reznor.
The Genius of Evil.
I live in Pisa actually, and I can't stand seeing people trying to push the tower anymore!!!
AAAAAAAAAARGH! Try to imagine 300 folks making the same photo at the same time.
They look sooooo dumb!