[SWLUG] Windows XP

[Steve Anderson]

Dafydd Harries wrote:

> I have a Thinkpad that came with a hidden recovery partition. A friend
> of mine with a similar model phoned up IBM and they were happy to send
> him a CD, no fuss.

HP and Dell won't, though, and I think Evesham might be buckling to 
Microsoft's 'helpful suggestion' to leave out the proper installation 
CD. This is fine until you have a laptop fall on a concrete floor with 
just enough force to smash the heads into the disks without damaging 
anything else, of course =)

Steve