An OS on Disc Beats an OS on Disk

摘要

If you've purchased a PC recently, you may have noticed something was missing. It's the operating system CD. Top PC vendors have stopped including the OS CD, and, in most cases, your first clue is when you unpack the box. Worse still, many are simply placing their OS restore utilities on a hidden partition of the hard drive and leaving it to you, the consumer, to bum your own copies of this media, which could take an hour of your time and multiple CDs.