Drive failure the way I was using the term equals physical failure of the
hard drive. If a hard drive physically fails, the special partition holding
the OEM restore image will be useless to the end user. That's all I meant
by this. And no, that's not a very complicated concept.
I wasn't arguing any point. If someone has an OEM machine with a restore
image on a partition, great. They should just make sure to create the
physical restore disks using whatever method the OEM provided so if their
hard drive dies - physically - they can put Windows onto the new drive they
get.
I'm not sure what Dell has to do with anything, but then I was only
responding to Dr. Sinister's comment about the image on a partition on a
single drive not helping if the single drive died. Physically. The Dells
I've seen lately that only come with a restore image don't seem to provide
a way of making a physical restore disk the way HPs do, for instance. That
is stupid, stupid, stupid. If people are going to buy Dells, they should
insist on receiving physical restore media. Or they will be stuck waiting
for Dell to send them physical restore media if their hard drive dies.
Physically.
I hope this has clarified my response to Dr. Sinister and my feeling in
general about having an operating system on physical restore media in case
one's hard drive dies. Physically.
Malke
