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I hate any PC that doesnt come with its o/s on a disc. It should be illegal to sell a computer without its o/s and drivers on discs. My Dell Inspiron laptop did come with both an XP CD and a driver CD. Its the only way to go. I dont bother with recovery partitions and the like. In fact as there was factory installed stuff like Mcafee antivirus and the like, I formatted the drive (going the whole hog , Write All Sectors to Zero) then installed XP from scratch. Now this is what I love about Dell. I didnt touch the driver CD, rather went to dells website, input the serial number, it took me to a page with ALL the necessary and up to date drivers for it. They were installed, including a bios update that was as easy to install as any normal bit of software. The laptop runs great.
Scott
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