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From: ~~Alan~~ on 7 Mar 2010 14:57 "Daddy" <daddy(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message news:hmppmt$oce$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > Attention All: > > Dell was the last of the major OEMs to furnish a genuine Windows install > disc (albeit an OEM version) as well as a Resource DVD. > > Not any more. > > "Dell no longer provides the operating system or resource disks in the box > for Windows 7 Systems. It is important for you to create recovery disks in > case of a hard drive failure. If you do not create the recovery disks, > there may be a charge from Dell for the operating system recovery media." > > https://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=62A668E1C399857AE040AE0AB8E12942&l=en&s=dhs > > Now I'll admit that "Dell DataSafe Local Backup 2.0" is an impressive > piece of work. But it's not a Windows disc. > > And for those of you who are concerned about how this will affect my > recent order of a Studio XPS 8100...essentially, no one...I'm negotiating > with Dell. I placed my order just 8 days after this article was first > published. > > Daddy I work in a Dell Shop (we buy exclusively from Dell) and at our recent holiday party, we raffeled of 4 Dell Vostro 220 machines that Dell accidently sent us but because they did not fit into our model (we buy OptiPlexes) we rejected them. Dell thought it was too expensive to take them back so they wrote them off and said we can do what we want with them. I was fortunate to have won one of these Vostro systems and I looked up the system by service tag and lo and behold what did I find but the date of Manufacture. If you got a Recovery CD with a system you just bought or not, why not look up your system by service tag, tell us where and/or how you obtained your system, post your results here and maybe, just maybe we can see a pattern if Dell is supplying recovery platters or not. Just a thought.
From: Al Dykes on 29 Mar 2010 08:14 In article <hmppmt$oce$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Daddy <daddy(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >Attention All: > >Dell was the last of the major OEMs to furnish a genuine Windows install >disc (albeit an OEM version) as well as a Resource DVD. > >Not any more. > >"Dell no longer provides the operating system or resource disks in the >box for Windows 7 Systems. It is important for you to create recovery >disks in case of a hard drive failure. If you do not create the recovery >disks, there may be a charge from Dell for the operating system recovery >media." > >https://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=62A668E1C399857AE040AE0AB8E12942&l=en&s=dhs > >Now I'll admit that "Dell DataSafe Local Backup 2.0" is an impressive >piece of work. But it's not a Windows disc. I just bought a retail Dell Inspiron 1464 yesterday. I'd buy a Windows disk if I could. This is my first modern Dell and I'm trying to figure out my backup/recovery options and the Dell support site. It used to be good. This post is timely. I can't find anything like "Dell DataSafe Local Backup 2.0" on the machine, It's right out of the box. I also don't see it on Dell support. Suggestions? -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
From: Al Dykes on 29 Mar 2010 10:47 In article <hmppmt$oce$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Daddy <daddy(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >Attention All: > >Dell was the last of the major OEMs to furnish a genuine Windows install >disc (albeit an OEM version) as well as a Resource DVD. > >Not any more. > >"Dell no longer provides the operating system or resource disks in the >box for Windows 7 Systems. It is important for you to create recovery >disks in case of a hard drive failure. If you do not create the recovery >disks, there may be a charge from Dell for the operating system recovery >media." > >https://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=62A668E1C399857AE040AE0AB8E12942&l=en&s=dhs > >Now I'll admit that "Dell DataSafe Local Backup 2.0" is an impressive >piece of work. But it's not a Windows disc. I just got an Inspiron 1464 from a big box store. It came with no media whatsoever and "Dell DataSafe Local Backup 2.0" wasn't installed. I called Dell support, the guy connected to my system and confirmed that. As a result, they are sending me media so I can refresh my system which I planeed to do anyway for the learning experience. It's not Windows media but it's better than nothing. -- Al Dykes News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising. - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail
From: WSZsr on 29 Mar 2010 16:37
Friday received an Inspiron 14 and it came with all the disks. "Al Dykes" <adykes(a)panix.com> wrote in message news:hoq5jj$a1r$1(a)panix1.panix.com... > In article <hmppmt$oce$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Daddy <daddy(a)invalid.invalid> wrote: >>Attention All: >> >>Dell was the last of the major OEMs to furnish a genuine Windows install >>disc (albeit an OEM version) as well as a Resource DVD. >> >>Not any more. >> >>"Dell no longer provides the operating system or resource disks in the >>box for Windows 7 Systems. It is important for you to create recovery >>disks in case of a hard drive failure. If you do not create the recovery >>disks, there may be a charge from Dell for the operating system recovery >>media." >> >>https://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/dsn/document?c=us&cs=19&docid=62A668E1C399857AE040AE0AB8E12942&l=en&s=dhs >> >>Now I'll admit that "Dell DataSafe Local Backup 2.0" is an impressive >>piece of work. But it's not a Windows disc. > > > I just bought a retail Dell Inspiron 1464 yesterday. I'd buy a > Windows disk if I could. This is my first modern Dell and I'm trying > to figure out my backup/recovery options and the Dell support site. It > used to be good. This post is timely. > > I can't find anything like "Dell DataSafe Local Backup 2.0" on the > machine, It's right out of the box. I also don't see it on Dell > support. > > Suggestions? > -- > Al Dykes > News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is > advertising. > - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail > |