[ltp] Advice on UEFI vs. BIOS

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 16 Jun 2014 17:56:31 -0500


On 2014-06-16 15:01, Bert Haskins wrote:
> In my experience less than 50% of the recovery partitions ever worked
> anyway.
> IMHO this was one of the worst cons ever dumped on consumers...
> but it did make for the sale of a lot! of full retail price copies of
> windoze.
> With friends like windows, you don't need any enemies.

For both my Thinkpads, I ordered a set of recovery discs.

I also recently "moved" Windows 7, from a refurb computer I bought to a
virtual machine on my main system.  While I could have done a system
backup (only to USB pen drive, no bigger than 32G), I just downloaded
the Windows 7 ISO from Technet and loaded it with the license key from
the refurb.