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|    TOM WALKER to BOB KLAHN    |
|    Windows 9 or WIndows    |
|    06 Dec 14 07:34:00    |
      BK> TW> Most of those do not come with a CD. While they do have a       BK> TW> recovery partition on hte hard drive it it useless in a       BK> TW> fatal disk crash. I have a "Clone", my luck is far better       BK> TW> with cloning then Ed Vance, on a spare hard drive for each       BK> TW> of my machines              BK> If you clone the whole disk you get the recovery partition also.       BK> In most cases I have known you can create restore disks from the       BK> recovery disk.              In the case of my laptop the System restore disk I made did not work       because I had to replace the Hard Drive and it will not restore to a New       Hard Drive       I ended up downloading the Free form MS Win 7 .iso believing I could use       the Procuct key off the tag on the "Refurbished" laptop only to find       that MS does not recognize the tags on refurbished laptops.              Since it was to be a Transcription laptop for the wife I installed       linuxMint and the abiword wordprocessor. That will do the job for her       ---        þ SLMR 2.1a þ Typo Tom Strkes Again        * Origin: Check Out Doc's QWK Mail Via Web BBS > DocsPlace.org (1:123/140)    |
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