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It seems to be the trend these days not to include Recovery CDs but instead to use a ‘hidden’ partition on the hard disk containing the recovery software. This is usually accessible by pressing a specific key combination on boot.

My girlfriends new HP computer is the same but I also see there is bundled backup software to enable a backup CD or DVD to be created. My point is that I wonder how many users actually create a backup disk so the computer can be restored to it’s factory state.

Having had my laptop hard drive fail last year I know that if I only had the original OS on a partition then everything would have been lost, requiring a call to the support line of the manufacturer concerned.

I know the arguments for having a recovery partiton but bearing in mind that DVDs cost vitrually nothing to manufacture it seems a pretty cheap cost saving measure on the part of computer manufacturers not to ship these DVDs with the computer as well as having the partition.