NO CD! - Vital information if you’ve just bought a new laptop or PC
Many manufactures have taken to not supplying Recovery CDs with new PCs and laptops. Instead they create a ‘recovery partition’ on the hard disc.
This recovery partition can be booted from in order to restore your PC / laptop to its ‘out of the factory’ state. You can then re-install your applications and recover your data from your backups.
The rationale behind this is that many users lose the CDs and can’t recover. Therefore by storing the files in a special partition you can restore without the need for CDs.
BUT – WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE HARD DISK FAILS?