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No media, crashed disk... uh-oh.
Yes, the situation you are in is the biggest weak point of the "recovery in a disk partition" approach. A somewhat lesser problem is the fact that many users don't even realize that the recovery media is there, and so when they need it they end up running all over looking for it, or just going out and buying something. On the other side of the coin, as Chris pointed out, when they do ship recovery CD/DVD media, it all too often gets lost, misplaced, or simply forgotten.
Most of the companies who ship systems this way provide some sort of means of producing recovery CD/DVD medai from the disk image. That could be a blessing for someone in your position, where others in the "supply chain" see fit to remove any media shipped with the computer. But again, how many users actually make the effort to create such media? Very few, I would say.
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