What, so you think the OEM wrote their own restore software?
The OEM may have bundled the CD with their own stuff, but the guts of it will be badged Microsoft code.
I suspect the OEM were the ones who put it together and chose this particular “no-prompt” method. I’ve never seen a Windows installation & restore that didn’t give you warnings and prompts, not from 95 through XP.
Just like SmilingBandit said, it’s not MS’s fault. In ANY thread about a PC-based computer with problems, it’s always “Damn you MS!!! Damn you to hell Bill Gates!”
In my experience, it’s either not OS related or is your typical ID10T error.
Blame the vendor of the PC for the restore disk, not MS.
Sam
Um. Yeah. As they always do: badly.
So if I sent you a CD that you booted off of, and it displayed a message that said, “Kiss my ass!” and then formatted your drive and installed Windows XP on it, you’d blame Microsoft? Neat.
Don’t fear XP, it’s actually pretty damn good.
It’s not XP that I’m so worried about, World Eater, it’s the OEM. With 98, I have the full disk. So as long as I keep my stuff backed up I have no problem. I have never had a computer without the actual Windows disk, and it kind of makes me nervous.