New laptop, no installation disc in packaging!

Appleblossom42 · 12-09-2008 2:24pm #1

Should this not have been in the packaging in case I ever need to reinstall Vista? It's a brand new Acer laptop with service pack 2 and Vista Home Premium in case this is important.

Alanstrainor · 12-09-2008 2:27pm

There is probably a restore partition on the hard drive if you need to do a reinstall/ restore.

Overheal · 12-09-2008 10:34pm

Nobody is shipping repair discs these days. The issue being it made operating systems too easy to pirate and redistribute. Instead there is a backup partition on your hard drive, and you can burn a disc of this that is only configured to work with that hardware.

dubfir · 14-09-2008 9:34pm

I think shift and f10 when ur rebooting brings u to the option to reinstall/repair on Acers laptops/pcs.

Soundman · 15-09-2008 1:01am

I thought that they were shipping the Vista discs so that you could easily upgrade to a different version of vista if required. I know I got a disc with my laptop about a year ago.

Capt'n Midnight · 17-09-2008 10:05pm

it varies but from some of the HOME vista laptops I've looked at didn't have disks

Advent (PC world) you get ONE chance to make a recovery disk , after that the app deletes the DVD.iso file - Hint back it up first

HP iirc give you 100 days to make the recovery disk

Toshiba and Sony don't give you an option to make a recovery disk , so if the hard drive dies it's game over otherwise if the registry becomes too corrupt to run system restore then your only option is wipe the drive and loose all your data

jahalpin · 20-09-2008 1:11pm

Dell ship Vista discs with all the computers they ship with it installed.

They tried the recovery partition only for a while but they seem to have abandoned it as it mustn't have been very popular

strjms72 · 22-09-2008 12:25pm

because not so many people know about this, nor are able to find this feature. i find it stupid too

Capt'n Midnight · 22-09-2008 6:42pm

strjms72 wrote: »

because not so many people know about this, nor are able to find this feature. i find it stupid too

It's stupid because between 1% - 3% of hard drives die each year
And even if they were as reliable as the best brands were back in the late 1980's it's still stupid because a registry problem will mean game over.

Overheal · 22-09-2008 11:56pm

The HP bloatware alerts you to burn a recovery DVD when you get your computer.

TestTransmission · 28-09-2008 4:56pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

it varies but from some of the HOME vista laptops I've looked at didn't have disks

Advent (PC world) you get ONE chance to make a recovery disk , after that the app deletes the DVD.iso file - Hint back it up first

HP iirc give you 100 days to make the recovery disk

Toshiba and Sony don't give you an option to make a recovery disk , so if the hard drive dies it's game over otherwise if the registry becomes too corrupt to run system restore then your only option is wipe the drive and loose all your data

Are you sure that Sony dont do this anymore?I know for a fact that they used to as i created quite a few.

Capt'n Midnight · 28-09-2008 5:29pm

jackncoke wrote: »

Are you sure that Sony dont do this anymore?I know for a fact that they used to as i created quite a few.

maybe they now ship vista media, but they used to just give you an image that deletes the partitions on your hard drive and deletes any data , software and settings you may have had

weeder · 29-09-2008 9:29am

i requested some cd's from dell via online chat support and recieved them in a few days free of charge.

New laptop, no installation disc in packaging!

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