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On Tuesday 10 August 2004 4:40, Paul Sutton wrote:
I thought making unauthorised changes to a computer system was illigal, this to me breaks the law as it should inform you of changes it makes
Not necessarily. Remember, in MS speak this is a pre-installed system and you are using a recovery CD, not a fresh install. So if you use a recovery CD, you are implicitly requesting a recovery to the pre-installed system, it is EXPECTED to recover the pre-install partition state. This is covered by the warnings in the recovery agreement that MS are not responsible if the recovery process damages any existing data on the hard drive - that would include partition tables. You are, after all, using a recovery CD because (in MS' expectations) you have a fault on the system that you cannot solve any other way. The recovery CD cannot be expected to do anything but recover your system to the pre-installed state - it was created with no other reference point. Now if you are daft enough to pay the full price of a Full Install Windows package - NOT an upgrade box - then you would be entitled to sue MS for damage to your partition table. Good luck! -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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