Re: hp recovery dvd

til <til@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> If I were to lose my hard drive, which I eventually have on every
> computer I have owned, I have to be prepared for the possibility of
> having to install a generic version of xp. I have been reading on
> this group that it is possible.

Well, you do make backups, don't you? So one of your options is to
make an image backup. Another is to make a disaster recovery backup. I
use the latter. The software needed for that (in my case Dantz
Retrospect Express) came with the USB hard-disk (in my case Maxtor)
which I bought.

So if you look into proper backup and (disaster) recovery procedures,
you will find that you don't need install media.
.

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