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Originally Posted by EmptyTimCup  oh no they can charge 10 - 20 bucks more for a 25 cent cd ....
but your really screwed when the hard drive dies .... and you have no nifty restore cd / dvd  |
Not entirely true. HPs (at least mine) came with a utility for a one-time creation of boot/recovery cds/dvds from the recovery partition. If you had the foresight to run the utility you'd have a set of recovery disks if the hard drive failed. I did, and it saved my butt once.