|Elflocko| Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 Or at least most of them don't, here's a great site to get them from: http://recovery-disks.com/ Average price seems to be $30. Though I understand the practice from a cost control standpoint, it can be utterly infuriating as an end-user. Sure, they give you a restore partition on the HDD, but what fucking good is that going to do you if the hard drive tanks? Or if one accidentally writes a new partition table to the whole drive because they forgot to disable the "tap to click" function on their new laptop prior to re-partitioning to dual boot Debian... Really, would it kill them to at least offer the ISO for download? Wankers... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 Hey at least you didnt delete your domain admin account and have to redo your whole domain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted March 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 [quote name='Jamie_B' timestamp='1300383792' post='977633'] Hey at least you didnt delete your domain admin account and have to redo your whole domain. [/quote] But yeah, that laptop has one touchy scroll pad. Yeesh... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie_B Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 [quote name='Elflocko' timestamp='1300384399' post='977635'] But yeah, that laptop has one touchy scroll pad. Yeesh... [/quote] Have to get my backup plan in place still but its all back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatScratchFever Posted March 17, 2011 Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 Just make an image of your HDD yourself periodically, and store it on another drive. Way more reliable than a recovery disk anyway. I've never once been successful using a manufacturer-supplied recovery disk. I don't even bother with them anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted March 17, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2011 [quote name='CatScratchFever' timestamp='1300396530' post='977737'] Just make an image of your HDD yourself periodically, and store it on another drive. Way more reliable than a recovery disk anyway. I've never once been successful using a manufacturer-supplied recovery disk. I don't even bother with them anymore. [/quote] Imaging the drive is a great idea. Some folks, however, are neither gifted nor skilled enough to do so, or they just can't be bothered. And the real value in the recovery disks is a copy of the OS that matches the license on their computer. Not everyone has the resources or savvy to snag a copy of Windows whenever they want... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatScratchFever Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 [quote name='Elflocko' timestamp='1300399990' post='977750'] Imaging the drive is a great idea. Some folks, however, are neither gifted nor skilled enough to do so, or they just can't be bothered. And the real value in the recovery disks is a copy of the OS that matches the license on their computer. Not everyone has the resources or savvy to snag a copy of Windows whenever they want... [/quote] Those people should just turn the computer off and back away slowly. Or pay me to come fix it for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted March 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 [quote name='CatScratchFever' timestamp='1300409293' post='977806'] Those people should just turn the computer off and back away slowly. Or pay me to come fix it for them. [/quote] You just described 90% of the computing public. And [b]our[/b] customer base... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted March 18, 2011 Report Share Posted March 18, 2011 [quote name='Elflocko' timestamp='1300381598' post='977622'] Or at least most of them don't, here's a great site to get them from: [url="http://recovery-disks.com/"]http://recovery-disks.com/[/url] Average price seems to be $30. Though I understand the practice from a cost control standpoint, it can be utterly infuriating as an end-user. Sure, they give you a restore partition on the HDD, but what fucking good is that going to do you if the hard drive tanks? Or if one accidentally writes a new partition table to the whole drive because they forgot to disable the "tap to click" function on their new laptop prior to re-partitioning to dual boot Debian... Really, would it kill them to at least offer the ISO for download? Wankers... [/quote] dvd's cost about .50 cents max to manufacturer.... especially in just a white sleeve... thier cost savings can suckit... hell offer it for a $5 option when buying... or buy a mac and the whole OS itself is only $29 and dont worry about it?[quote name='Elflocko' timestamp='1300412468' post='977822'] You just described 90% of the computing public. And [b]our[/b] customer base... [/quote] maybe 99% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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