Most manufacturers don't give you a disc, just a partition on the HDD.
Crazy, all the manufactured PCs I've had came with dvds, leaving it on a hdd is silly =p
When is the last time you bought one though? Most stopped supplying discs when Vista came out.
And ICQ, I agree. My thinkpad HDD died after a week of use, it was just lucky that I have a retail copy of Vista.
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