Well our dear friends in the PC industry have given up including backup CDs/DVDs of operating system, applications or drivers for your PC. This is REALLY a bad idea. And guess what? Since it saves about $1.00 on each PC, EVERY manufacturer in the industry has adopted this cost savings action.
Many people don't use those CDs/DVDs, but some do. And the ones that do, need them desperately. If your hard drive crashes, you get a virus, a major program develops a bad file or you make a mistake and delete part of your operating system, YOU NEED THESE DISKS! What the manufacturers have done is put the information needed to restore you PC and all its programs on a different partition of your hard drive. So not only do you not get your back up disks, but they take away about 10-20% of your hard drive size. Aren't these people wonderful?
So what should you do when you get a new PC? Immediately run the Create Recovery Disks utility and make your own CDs/DVDs. Be prepared, if you are burning CD's it will take more then 9 of them. If you are doing DVDs (and have a DVD burner) it will be 1 or 2 DVDs. Mark them appropriately and save them with your other important PC documentation. PCSS will be creating these disks for our customers, but because it takes lots of time, we may stop doing this at any time. Things sometimes get worse not better.
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