Good day to one and all...

I have a question and was wondering if any of you had a good way around it.

On some Dell machines they seem to not send out a windows cd and say that if you need to reinstall or fix anything the windows cd is installed entirely on your HD.
I work for a major computer manufacture and we have our *own* recovery software as well. We do not send out 'windows cds'. It's OEM baby Also, all software is intergrated into the system. Meaning, when your 'hard drive' fails, crashes, display errors, (no os found, smart failure, etc...) or just make loud noise when powering on your system *it's your job* to 'create recovery cds'. All Manufactures when you buy a brand new desktop/notebook it will display a message in the windows notification area for at least 30 days, for the customer, saying 'please create recovery cds? (you get the idea)


Now that just seems like a stupid idea since if something really bad happens and your system crashes how do you get it back up and running w/o the Windows cd?
It's a not a stupid idea is a very intelligent idea. Heres why,

1.) Money saver for company.

2.) Money Maker for company (hey we have a parts department where you can purchase 'recovery cds') trick is, you can make your own no need to purchase them.

3.) Now the important one, how to get it back up? Since the software is already intergrated into the system all you usually have to do is

Press one of the F1 through F12 our company is (f8) keys, on the keyboard. This should trigger the 'recovery software' from there you can reformat system and get it 'up and running' properly.