re: backup win xp cd
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 5:30 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Dan Sarandrea, MCSE
(7096 messages posted)
Microsoft REQUIRES that any OEM, big or small, must provide the end user with a way
to reinstall the OS.
If your seller is not providing any sort of method to reinstall the OS, chances are
they are pirating Windows using a technique called "hard disk loading." Your new
computer with Windows preinstalled should also have a Certificate of Authenticity
(CoA) affixed to it, with the version and edition of Windows listed on it, as well
as the Product Key. If no CoA, it's pirated, plain and simple.
As Adam and Ricer have posted this requirement could be satisfied in several ways,
such as a hidden recovery partition, recovery discs, or (from small manufacturers/systembuilders)
a genuine MS hologrammed installation CD.
Generally speaking, the manufacturers that provide only a recovery partition have
been prodded by MS to include a utility that will burn a recovery disc from the recovery
partition data, so that if the hard disk dies you can reimage the replacement hard
disk.
I have noticed that over the last couple of years, manufacturer recovery partition
software has improved somewhat, in that a good percentage of manufacturers use software
that can save user data in the standard user profile location (for example, c:\documents
and settings\USER_NAME) before reimaging the c: drive of the hard disk.
- Written in response to:
- backup win xp cd (robert: Sunday, October 4, 2009 at 5:39 pm)
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