re: #428 tradewind

Most Windows pcs have stopped shipping with the full versions of the operating system discs (XP, VISTA), and instead come with crappy restore discs. You have to request or borrow copies of the actual XP/Vista installs.

The Dell consumer systems (Inspiron, Dimension, etc.) usually have a recovery partition that you can boot into, to restore the factory build (with XP it was Ghost, and with Vista, it’s MS stuff (WIM file, etc.).