Dell notebooks

I meant to refer to possible loss of support.

 

To me a full OS CD is a CD that has all the OS software and drivers that
would enable me to rebuild the system any way I choose, not just recover to
a fixed state.

 

Yes it does, but a discussion of the merits is not the subject of my query.

 

I won't accept having a Symantec partition.
Can it be removed by uninstalling the symantec software?

 

Even that, they don't care. They just have you boot from the Resource disk
to access the same utilities.

Tom

 

Then Dell ships full OS CDs by your definition.

 

No. It can be removed by deleting all partitions and reinstalling
everything.

But why? It's just an original image and is pretty darn handy.

 

True enouth. But since I can run the diagnostics from the CD, I don't
really need the partition even for support.

 

That is one advantage of having a recovery CD.
Did not know that you could actually run from the critter.

 

I do not want OEM Symantec software.
I ASSuME that the partition includes stuff other than NAV.
I don't want anything else.
I run Norton Utilities from the installation CD (retail version), don't need
any crud running in the background.

 

Actaully is doesn't, NTFS and any of the modern Linux file systems work just
as well on a large drive.

 

Ahhhh, there is where my missing hard drive space is! What does this
Symantec partition do? I probably won't keep the Symantec software
after the 3 month free period. Does the Symantec software require this
partition to run, or can I remove it now?

 

I think you're misunderstanding what is in the partition. It doesn't have
anything to do with NAV. It's a 'lite' version of Ghost. It has the ENTIRE
image of your hard drive, just as it came out of the box, including the OS,
applications, etc. It is VERY handy if you need to do a reinstall.

Tom

 

Then it should not be called a "Symantec partition".

 

Elsewhere in this thread, I sufferred the same confusion. Somwbody stated
that it is really a "recovery partition" that has an image to restore the
hard drive as out of the box.

That facilitates tech support screwing the naive user by telling them to go
back to ground zero, instead of actually trying to figure out the problem.
Such a drastic action should be a last resort, alas, from stories I hear,
that request is all too common.

 

Huh? Would "grilled cheese" partition be better? Ghost is a Symantec
product.

 

If 95% of users weren't computer/software challenged, it wouldn't be
required. The vast majority of problems are created by the user and tech
support often can't figure out how the user screwed it up. Since software
support is largely fee based now, it is to the advantage of the user to have
that option (software restore image).

 

Man, I should have kept reading other threads. Well, I ended up providing
you with information in your own thread.

 

Well, it's not by me. I'm not sure why the original user chose that term.
It's not descriptive.

 

No, grilled cheese is too fattening.