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zeldaber:
The first three sentences of your description of "restore disk" is accurate
_ONLY_ for some manufacturers, and _ONLY_ for some models sold by those
manufactures.
Some companies that currently provide a "restore disk" as you describe
were _NOT_ doing so two years ago (when the OP purchased his computer).
Some companies eschew hidden partitions on hard drives and provide an actual
set of restore CDs (or DVD). Currently shipping HP computers, upon the very
first boot, offer the option, to create a full set of restore CDs using the
built-in CD burner. The Gateway laptop that I purchased two years ago came
with a non-customized windows XP on CD, a CD with drivers, and a CD with
customized Gateway trouble-shooting software.
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"zeldaber" <free@free.com> wrote in message
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> hi
> the system restore disk tells your machine where on the disk it can find
xp.
> Your computer maker has installed a copy of xp files on your hard disk so
> that you can use these files to restore you machine back to its original
> state. This is fine providing the location where these files are stored
> doesn't become corrupt. In answer to your original question if you use the
> restore disk, it will restore your computer back to the original state
> (without any of the updates you have done). You then will have to download
> all the updates including sp2.
> by the way I hate the way manufactures do this system it saves them alot
of
> money not providing you with an original xp disk
>
> hope this helps
>
> zel\
> "Maureen Goldman" <inkslinger@FOGsunshine.net> wrote in message
> news:jqi8t0l4o30sjgsn3qs2cnqn53ki7qacvv@4ax.com...
> > My two-year-old emachine came with a restore disk rather than a full
> > copy of XP. In case of emergency, can it still be used now that SP2
> > has been installed?
> >
> >
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