New notebook Win7 fun

[Ivan Avery Frey]

On 19/09/12 9:59 , James Knott wrote:
> Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
>>> It also prompts me to make a Win7 backup (restore disks?). Turns out
>>> that
>>> that is 6 blank DVDs. 24 minutes into this process and nothing has been
>>> burned so far. This could easily take longer than installing Linux. And
>>> just think, in a month, I could get to do the same with Win8 (for ~$15).
>>
>> A friend of mine bought a Sony Laptop that recommends creating
>> recovery media. I hope it doesn't take 6 DVDs. I'm considering looking
>> into the WAIK (Windows Automated Install Kit) to see if I can create a
>> "Windows Install Partition" on an external drive.
>
> My ThinkPad E520 required 4 DVDs.

All I can say is WTF is wrong with Microsoft????? Ok, ok I can see all 
you Unix beards looking down on me and thinking "Duh, why are you 
surprised?"

Ivan.
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