LimeyorYank wrote:
So just to clarify: The recovery discs will have all the Asus bloatware thats needed? Or will I have to go to the website and download the specific programs?
As JR said, "bloatware" ...by definition....is not needed. It's the crappy, redundant, unnecessary software utilities that manufacturers pile on so they can have lots of bullet points in their marketing and flashy crap popping up on the screen to impress the unknowing.
But just to clarify: There will be a 25Gb recovery partition on your 1st hard drive, called "System Reserved." It consists of an image (a special kind of compressed copy) of the original factory installation and an autorun program to restore that image any time you want to. As long as that partition is present and uncorrupted, you can restore your computer to its
exact out-of-the-box condition. If you choose to make a set of recovery disks, they constitute an external backup of that recovery partition, so even if you delete the partition on your drive, you'll always have a copy of the original installation.
Again, the recovery partition and the recovery disks are exact back-ups of the original Asus installation.....all the drivers, all the bloatware, etc., that Asus put on it before it shipped.
