No Recovery Discs !!

1 2 3, here I go..

bought a new laptop lastnight from Comet, really chuffed as its a high spec acer and waited all this time for Windows 7 to release (5 months)

eventually bought it last night, opened and its a dream machine, then going through the stuff, I noticed there is no Windows 7 Recovery Disc.

Absolutely raging !!! spent £799 and no recovery discs !!

I know I can burn recovery discs from the laptop but its not the same...

remember in old days (well two years ago lol..) anything you bought PC or laptop came with the recovery discs..

rant over !!

Ive had 2 Acer Laptops over the last 4 years and neither came with recovery disc's
was prompted to create my own

I remember being a little angry too lol

also some makes of new laptops have a hidden recovery partition on boot up you have to press a f button cant remember which one tho.

F10 on boot up with some laptops will allow you to boot the recovery I remember rightly.

but recovery partitions mean naff all if the hard drive tanks it.

Very true and its a con when you dont get any discs. The only 2 machines I have had a full OS disk supplied has been with Dell and Medion.

daveleebond said:

but recovery partitions mean naff all if the hard drive tanks it.

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a recovery disk wouldn't really help much either.

Umm....Windows 7 has a built in backup disk and boot disk creator and it is really good.

I created an image of mine and saved it to a network share, then changed the hdd for a larger one and restored it from the network share.

It was really fast and so easy.

Hope this helps.

Linky...

daveleebond said:

but recovery partitions mean naff all if the hard drive tanks it.

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which mine did

can i install a 'demo' version of XP but use my key off the bottom of the laptop? would it verify as an original copy then for windows update?

digidude said:

which mine did

can i install a 'demo' version of XP but use my key off the bottom of the laptop? would it verify as an original copy then for windows update?

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you can download and install the OEM version and use your serial on bottom.

digidude said:

which mine did

can i install a 'demo' version of XP but use my key off the bottom of the laptop? would it verify as an original copy then for windows update?

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as long as it's the same version m8.

maarksparky said:

1 2 3, here I go..

bought a new laptop lastnight from Comet, really chuffed as its a high spec acer and waited all this time for Windows 7 to release (5 months)

eventually bought it last night, opened and its a dream machine, then going through the stuff, I noticed there is no Windows 7 Recovery Disc.

Absolutely raging !!! spent £799 and no recovery discs !!

I know I can burn recovery discs from the laptop but its not the same...

remember in old days (well two years ago lol..) anything you bought PC or laptop came with the recovery discs..

rant over !!

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I agree with you mate it pisses me right off aswell, for some reason its just not natural not having an original copy of your operating system.
I know making recovery discs is easy for most of us but your average pc user isn't interested in doing that and they want piece of mind that if it all goes Pete Tong then they can start again.

I hate the recovery discs they create as they are often bloated with the blue chip bollox software that came with the pc.
I never seen the point in installing a bloated operating system after a format, id rather have the bare bones oes and then strip it down as much as i can and add the programs i want not what some ripp off merchant at pc world recommended.

Thankfully i have collected quite a few good discs over the last couple of years and i never get caught out.

maarksparky said:

1 2 3, here I go..

bought a new laptop lastnight from Comet, really chuffed as its a high spec acer and waited all this time for Windows 7 to release (5 months)

eventually bought it last night, opened and its a dream machine, then going through the stuff, I noticed there is no Windows 7 Recovery Disc.

Absolutely raging !!! spent £799 and no recovery discs !!

I know I can burn recovery discs from the laptop but its not the same...

remember in old days (well two years ago lol..) anything you bought PC or laptop came with the recovery discs..

rant over !!

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I use Acronis Drive Image pal and it takes a snapshot of your recovery partition that you can backup elsewhere.

You will still have problems if you put it on another system but you can still do a repair with an OEM at first bootup. That way you get drivers etc for your system.

Make a note of your serial number now pal, so you aint buggered later.

I bought an acer a couple of years ago and it was the same then. You were promted to create backup discs on first boot. Returned it about three weeks later as the display was faulty and bought a fujitsu. It did have a copy of the os.

thebigman

thought it was just me, acer....no recovery discs, d#ckhead in shop told me they should av been in the box

i brought a acer laptop about 4 years go and it did not come with a disk and i paid quite a bit for it why do they do this?








"uk-wales"

glad that all of you agreed with me..

hoppy you are right, my acer has got so much crap on it, games (60min trails) Office trial etc etc and the list goes on..

spent ages uninstalling crap on it..

its farce..

dont want to use the downloaded copy as it might have backdoor bots etc..

i think its a con, that you dont even get the original disc with it..

still raging..

It's been quite a few years now since most manufacturers shipped proper O/S discs. I never had any with my Acer lappy, or new Toshiba lappy. (Though bizarrly, my mate bought an Acer about a month after I bought mine, and she did get the Vista Anytime Upgrade DVD with it, without asking, or paying for it?!)

Anyway, I've always wiped the drive, and done a clean install with the genuine PID off the casing. With XP you just had make sure you had the correct version that came with the unit. (OEM Home/Pro etc) Occasionally you'd have activate still afterwards, but in XP it was easy to back up those files for future use.

In Vista, I used ARB - (Activation, Backup & Restore) which always worked a treat.

Doesn't look like ARB is compatibe with Win7 yet though...

IIRC, the reasons you don't get the discs anymore, is basically because you don't actually own the O/S, you only lease the rights to use it with the equipment it is supplied with. Or something like that... Lol

i bought acer lappy too neither did i ....... also when i bought my pc a few year ago, i had to pay £60 for a recover disc which i had to send off for.
they said if i'd paid the extra when i bought, the support package thingy i would of got one with it then.

thats pisses me off even more... if they said that to me I would have shoed them two fingers..

anyhow, i have made backup dvd now.. but still raging..