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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 01:33:05 GMT, "J.Lef" <j.lef@verizon.net> wrote:
> Thanks Ed. I am not sure what you mean by the red disk. This
>is my first gateway, that didnt come with all backup disks. The Gateway
>came with six blank cdr,s. There is a program that you can only use once,
>that burns the restore feature onto five disks.
Then you have what Tweek suggested. I knew Gateway had gone to hell
but didn't know that Gateway had fallen that low as to follow suit of
the other half assed junk dealers but it seems as though they have.
My 450 is only two years old but did come with the two restoration
disks (Red & Blue) but now it seems that GW has followed suit and is
not offering restoration disks but putting the whole thing on the HD.
Now how much money did that save them, 5 cents, 10 cents per
system....
>This laptop 4028gz came with a simple "gateway users notebook guide" of
>about 100 pages, very simplistic for an experienced user.
Mine came with a 318 page manual that covered just about everything
about the physical laptop and basics concerning XP. There was no need
to add anything further on the HD. Again, seems as though gateway is
going as cheap as they can and putting everything on the HD. Real
smart move in case the system quits and you don't have physical
help/backups in hand. BTW, Start/Help & Support is a great help
interface concerning XP.
I'm sorry I can't help you any further but it just seems that today's
Gateway is not giving their customers any of the resources needed to
maintain their systems like they use to when they were a creditable
and quality company.
As has been stated on here and other places before, this is the reason
why people are moving towards having their systems built by credible
local builders. Problem is, laptops must still come from the large
corporate shafters because as of yet, you still can't build them
locally.
Just a sad story about systems without restoration disks... A
friend's daughter got a new computer for college. It was one of those
cheap pieces of junk with the HP name printed on it. As with all
corporate pieces of computer junk now on the market, it didn't come
with a restoration disk. The big problem was, she didn't know what a
restoration disk was and nothing in the single sheet of instructions
in 6 languages that came with the system did it say anything about
creating the restoration disks by burning them from the HD. Well,
something finally went wrong and she couldn't get the thing to boot
without tons of error messages popping up so a restoration was in
order. Guess what! No restoration disk(s) and No Operating System
(XP) disk. Tech support in India and her couldn't communicate because
she couldn't understand them so that wasn't any help. By friend
finally took this new machine, which was still under warranty, to a
reputable local builder and paid him to get all the right drivers and
a copy of XP on the system. He also purchased a copy of XP for this.
Now they have a Real restoration disk (ghost) and real OS disk for the
computer. Needless to say, he and her will be buying local built
computers from now on (unless it is a laptop sad to say).
Sorry about getting off on a soapbox there......
Ed