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Story: PC makers find ways to extend XP's life
Re: Media
First, I agree with you 100% (more if possible) on congratulations to Dell, and any others, for reacting to consumer demand (outrage?) and continuing to offer XP.
It seems odd that you received a machine which was preloaded with something you couldn't restore. I know that Dell has recently been changing over to the "hidden partition" method of recovery, instead of shipping media. Is it possible that you got the system preloaded with XP, and the XP "recovery" is on the hard disk, and then they included the Vista recovery DVDs because that wasn't what was preloaded?
Last, yes, I fully agree, the "recovery" procedures which don't give you any options other than "wipe the disk and restore to factory initial" are very irritating. The people who design and distribute those things should be forced to use them, in emergency situations, a few times, and they would learn how much better it is to have some less drastic options.
J.A. Watson
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