[ltp] Gates' pound of flesh

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:10:27 +0100


On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 17:25:42 +0000, Richard Neill wrote:

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> Is there any way to get IBM to ship you a proper Windows Install disk, 
> rather than the pointless recovery partition? Much though I loathe XP, 

1. You can call the support and ask them to send you a CD set (was at
least possible for me last summer).

2. You can burn a bootable install DVD with the contents of the
recovery partition from within the XP installation. I heard that there
is a tool for this.

Regards,
Tino