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. 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?

Is there any way to burn the copy of windows that Dell says is on the HD onto a cd? Is there anyway to extract that data for emergency use? Or perhaps someone knows a way around this issue.