From: "Geo." 

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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>  That's the main problem - MFRs going on the cheap with no Windows
> installation disc.  Not Vista's design problem.

Any other image backup software would create a bootable DVD for the restore
process. To assume you are going to use a stupid install partition off a
dead hard drive is beyond stupid and I don't believe that's what MS is
doing, I think this is just another angle of their copy protection (show me
your papers).

Oh and I ordered the the disks from IBM (they charge like $20 or something
for media) but they have not come in yet.

Geo.

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