Re: Evesham Windows CD


"John5" <nowherehere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "[L.]" <null@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:09:55 -0000, "JimmyX" <duelly17@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
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>>>Hello.
>>>Does anyone know if Evesham still supply an operating system CD with
>>>their
>>>computers?
>>>I ask this because as of around 6 months back Dell has stopped supplying
>>>them with sales in the UK.
>>>I'm not really interested if someone bought their computer a few
>>>months/years back and go a CD. I want to know if they still supply one
>>>with
>>>current sales.
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>> Although it's not what you are asking, dell is still supplying them
>> (if you pay about a tenner). If you don't want to pay, you can burn
>> them from the images in the PC. Had I known, I would have saved a
>> tenner.
>>
>> [L.]
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> Hi this isn't true.
> Dell will supply the OS CD in North America if you pay $10 but they DO NOT
> offer this in the UK, and other countries I think.
> As to being able to burn the disc from the hard drive, this facility was
> only available for a period of about 18months or so. But as of the middle
> of 2005, this was stopped. The only was to reinstall windows on a new Dell
> computer in the UK is to prefrom a destructive 'return to factoy'
> bloatware state.
>

I bought a dell just before Xmas - and the first thing I did was burn a set
of DVD recovery disks from the provided application. (and then created an
image of the system just in case<g>)
I didn't check at the time whether ther was an option to buy a set, but.I
believe that if you ring, they will supply them for a fee.

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