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Old April 4th 18, 10:29 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
J. P. Gilliver (John)[_4_]
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Default Toshiba W-7 went dark

This thread has gone quiet. HB, have you got the new drive yet, and has
the "cable" turned up after its slow boat from China trip?

In message , Paul
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Here is a potential list of the assets a new laptop owner receives.

Acer prompt - DVD \ Three DVD set that returns laptop with a brand
DVD \___ new empty hard drive, to factory state.
Activated,
DVD / and all drivers are installed already.

CD --- 500MB CD containing drivers. These drivers are
installed *after* a user does an
emergency Retail
DVD installation. This saves time when doing a
Retail install. You combine this CD, with your
Microsoft Win7 download DVD, if wanting
to install the
Retail version in an emergency.

Microsoft prompt - CD --- 300MB CD for emergency boot purposes. Can be used
to restore a Windows 7 Backup, to a brand
new hard
drive. This boot disc can also be used to get to
a Command Prompt and do CHKDSK on a partition
needing to be checked.

That's a total of five optical discs, that a brand new laptop
will prompt a new laptop owner to burn, within the first two
days of ownership. The laptop should continue to prompt you,
to make the materials.

Failure to burn the discs means, if the hard drive dies, the
user has nothing.

The "Acer Prompt" in the above, makes *one* copy of the media set
for you. If you want assurance of having the info later, save
copies of the burned DVDs as a set of ISO files for later. By having
multiple copies of the information, when an emergency situation
does come up, you'll have the goods.

Paul

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