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Thread ID: 21190	2002-06-19 22:28:00	Advantages\Disadvantes of Recovery Disks.	Guest (0)	Press F1

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55239	2002-06-19 22:28:00	Hi, It seems likely, that when you purchase a brand new PC these days, is that you get a set of 'Recovery Disks' or (not sure on this one - a Recovery CD.' I dont have a set of Recovery Disks or Recovery cd's (as I brought one in 1999) but I do have a one cd for each thing. Like: my Operating System, sound, video, mboard, monitor, modem etc... Am I disadvantaged in this any way, compared to people who have recovery cds? In my opinion, (im not sure, but liked to be corrected) would it be harder for people to 'upgrade' to another operating system because all of the drivers etc.. + O.S are on this Recovery cd? Hope this makes sense	Guest (0)
55240	2002-06-19 22:48:00	Well there are goods and bads for both. In your position, the goods are that you have a single cdrom for each, which means that if you have to reload a video driver or sound driver you can do so with out doing a complete recovery. On the bad side if you have to do a complete recovery its going to take alittle more time. If you wish to have both then I would suggest making a ghost image and burning it to a cdrom. Then you will have the best of both worlds.	Guest (0)
55241	2002-06-19 22:52:00	In my opinion you are better off with the full applications as you currently have, however recovery CDs do work, but not quite as flexible as your system. While all drivers etc are usually on the recovery CDs, bear in mind that they are usually out of date as bug fixes etc have occurred so getting them via the web is preferrable. Overall I would go with your system, particularly for upgrading OS, as you may in some cases have to actually load the old OS and upgrade, whereas you can just show it your CD. Probably varies between systems. My experience has been that recovery CD was almost as good.	Guest (0)
55242	2002-06-19 23:07:00	the problem with restore disks(supermaket pc's) is that they can't be used on other pc's, or if you upgrade your pc to much. having your own windows copy is better as you can use it on each pc you have eg i've had the same windows on the last 3 pc's i've had. i don't often use the origanel drivers much because i have the latest drivers downloaded off the net. makeing your own restore disk is handy. one advandage of a restore disk is that you can do a very quick recovery if windows dies. however you will have to make a new restore disk when you do any major upgrading. the one thing to stear clear off is those who do not have restore cd's but have restore partitions insteaded. if the hardrive dies you lose all software.	Guest (0)
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