why would Sony do this??

[GroundZero3]

I bought a sony about two years ago and when i went to reformat my hard drive i was checking to make sure that i had the windows cd. well to my surprise i had windows companion not the full version of windows. Now why would they do that?? I should be given the full version not some crappy upgrade. has anyone else had this problem with a store bought computer??
Gz3

[daveleau]

Most retail computers have Windoze on the restore disk and does not give the disk itself. HP has recently changed and hopefully others will follow suit.
Dave

[Brangwen]

My early computers were Packard Smells. Though I loved my 486! All those came with Win (3.1 & Win95) so I could dump the machines and reload. Since I've been having my machines built (non-proprietory), I always get full version OS CDs. Sony is so ... Sony! They want you to craw back to them for help ($).

Brangwen

[FatNards]

i have a sony vaio model 210 and the recovery disks are exellent just boot to your cd rom and it givcs me several options full format with full install low level format with mimimal install which is just win 95 installed not the 100 other things that come on the puter its got selective install where u install what u want i believe the base non format is just the rewriting of win 95 or does your disks not have all the options that mine do u can also call sony teck support and ask