On Thursday, April 17, 2008 at 1:51 am, gewg_ wrote:

>

>I don't ever remember hearing about a true IBM having this kind of hangup

>--and really, why would it?  IT'S IBM.

:)  Well, we can agree on some Compaqs at least.  I've seen a lot of "lost the CDROM" 
on my laptop messages at Windows clean install time and they also didn't have the 
Restore CD for it, so I've always assumed the worst by default.  These threads also 
don't have a good resolution for the most part...

I went looking to verify this "rumor" myself years ago, I couldn't find very much 
at all, but what I did find pointed to mostly laptops for this one off behavior, 
Compaq desktops came in as an also ran 2nd.  I would stongly suspect all computers 
that were sold with a Restore CD as being quilty here, but how to find that out bends 
the mind some.  Manufacturer websites aren't always easy to navigate, especially 
if what one wants isn't the latest model offered.  
 

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