Instead, they bundle what they call a “recovery disk” (that’s if you’re lucky – otherwise you’ll have a recovery partition instead) with your machine and leave it at that.
And if you’re like 99% of the population, you get your new machines from one of the major manufacturers.ĭell, Acer, HP, Toshiba, Lenovo, they all have one thing in common: they don’t give you a real Windows Vista installation disk with your purchase. If you’re like most PC users, you probably got Windows Vista with a new PC or laptop.
