Recovery Disk Info

[fangoria]

Most new system seem to come with a recovery disk for the os. Are you better off with a straight up os? I have heard if you ever need to reformat the hard drive that you can't use a recovery disk to get your os back on your pc, is this true? Thanks for any info, fangoria

[Roy]

The systems that come with those discs seem to add proprietary junk. I think a nice clean "real" version is better. But it also may be costly.

[GroundZero3]

i feel the same as roy. my mom bought a sony viao computer couple of years ago and the recovery disk added so much junk on to the computer that it slow down preformance so much. unistalling won't work also becasue you will have all these extra files laying around casue even more problems and slow downs. go clean install

Jason

[phecky]

Name brand OEM recovery discs are made for that particular function- you have a disaster that requires a reformat then the recovery disc makes it easy for novice user to restore his/her particular system. Recovery discs are specific to the machine so they only work for identical systems. If you format and want "clean" install then the process gets a little more involved and you would have to have a stand alone OS install disc plus the disc(s) with neccesary hardware drivers and software for your specific setup.

[fangoria]

Thanks to all of your replys,I think that answers my questions. fangoria