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Originally Posted by Omaroo
That's normal for many manufacturers nowadays. If you read the instructions (foreign concept.... I know) for my recent Asus Aspire it plainly states to hook up a CD burner and follow the instructions to burn a recovery set before you do anything - at all. Pretty silly to think that a manufacturer reckons males might read instructions, huh!  |
Does it say that in such a way that it is physically impossible to power up the laptop without reading the instruction? If not, that's not good enough. Have you read Dave Barry on the subject of instructions?
Congratulations! You have purchased an extremely fine device that would give you thousands of years of trouble-free service, except that you undoubtably will destroy it via some typical bonehead consumer maneuver. Which is why we ask you to PLEASE FOR GOD'S SAKE READ THIS OWNER'S MANUAL CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU UNPACK THE DEVICE. YOU ALREADY UNPACKED IT, DIDN'T YOU? YOU UNPACKED IT AND PLUGGED IT IN AND TURNED IT ON AND FIDDLED WITH THE KNOBS, AND NOW YOUR CHILD, THE SAME CHILD WHO ONCE SHOVED A POLISH SAUSAGE INTO YOUR VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDER AND SET IT ON "FAST FORWARD", THIS CHILD ALSO IS FIDDLING WITH THE KNOBS, RIGHT? AND YOU'RE JUST NOW STARTING TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS, RIGHT??? WE MIGHT AS WELL JUST BREAK THESE DEVICES RIGHT AT THE FACTORY BEFORE WE SHIP THEM OUT, YOU KNOW THAT? -- Dave Barry, "Read This First!"
The usual strategy is:
When all else fails, read the directions.
I always either build my own desktops, or have them built to my specs. I get all the media.
I won't even consider a laptop that does not have restore media. The closest I'd go to breaking that would be if it was supplied as one or more ISOs, and the laptop had the right burner.