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re: Where's my XP CD?
Friday, November 9, 2001 at 11:04 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed Neves
(1 messages posted)
Same thing happened with me when I bought a new HP Desktop, no XP CD, no Restore
CD, no software bundle CD. Everything stored on the hard drive. I returned the HP
and let them know exactly why. I then bought a Dell, and look what was in the box....a
whole handfull of software CD's including XP.
On Monday, November 5, 2001 at 4:53 pm, rudedog wrote:
>Remember the old days when you bought a computer, the dealer also gave you the operating
>system (providing you purchased it) via CD or diskettes? I guess those days are
>over.
>
>I bought a new HP with Microsoft XP the other day. First thing I did was reformat
>and partition the disk drive. Bad mistake. I hunted for the XP CD, could not find
>it. E-mailed HP tech support only to get canned answers that did not answer my request
>for a system recovery CD to be mailed to me.
>
>It seems that HP provides the system recovery CD in the form of a hidden partition
>on the hard drive. I had
>deleted it when I reformatted. So now I have to Fed-Ex my shiny new computer back
>to HP so they can spend 5 minutes reimaging my hard drive.
>
>So why am I writing this? Just to tell you guys to be
>careful. Unless you buy XP retail out of the box, your
>vendor might only give you a soft copy on your hard
>drive. You will not be able to install it on another
>machine if your first machine goes *boom*.
>
>Cheers
- Written in response to:
- Where's my XP CD? (rudedog: Monday, November 5, 2001 at 4:53 pm)
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