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   
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