quick question,
when you buy a laptop or computer is it supposed to come with a CD inside??
my friend bought a laptop and it did, and i bought one too but no CDs came with it, and my old XP desktop didn't come with one either when i bought it..

it probably should have a restore disc or something.
did you by from different brands? maybe the brand you bought from just happens to not do that.

You should have got a disc. Did you try telling the retailer the issue?

fyi it's the serial number you're paying for, not the disk. Grab an untouched ISO somewhere off the net.

well the desktop was Compaq and the only CD that came with was for the Office free trial, and the laptop is Toshiba Satellite.. & i didnt ask Office depot(where i bought the laptop)

Or borrow a friend's CD. What is it? XP? Anyone who knows about computers and isn't poor has an XP disk lying around.

on my old computer yes.. but i was just wondering. i should prob. call office depot & complain haha

Hi,
You should have got a disc
Thanks.

HP/Compaq doesn't sell computers with OS disks. Instead, they partition your hard drive and load a backup from there.

Kinda odd for compaq to do that...never heard of that happening lol

this is true. you're also allowed to create one set of recovery discs under recovery manager.

Dell gives you restore disks for the operating system. Was the disk for the OS, or was it for something else entirely?

Many retailers don't include a disc with your computer. Often times you can boot to a separate partion on the HDD with applications that allow you to reformat the primary partition and reinstall the the factory default image. Microsoft requires manufactures that ship their products with Windows preinstalled to include a process for the user to reinstall windows on that machine.

still open?? hmm


well i didn't need it, i was wondering in case i would later need to restore it (and i did but i didn't need a cd), also i've heard u need one for reinstalling windows or somethiing

So, it was a Windows (restore) CD? You really would probably never use it, only if for some reason, something corrupts your entire system, and you have to replace the HDD. Then you would use the CD... If it's just restoring the computer to original settings, There are administrator options for that.

cool, & thanks