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The above, and porter's what-if scenario assumes you have already hosed the built in recovery. Which is possible if you delete it for some reason, or the disk/ssd dies. This also assumes that you can't get the USB disk with lion, or have your "friend", or the pirate bay, get you a lion CD, or install the linux flavour-of-the-month on it.

Kudos to windows XP for brainwashing users into believing that the operating system must be reinstalled every year or two.

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A1370 (Messi) dp43tf (Puyol) A1387 (Abidal) A1408 (Guardiola)

"InfiniteReality Graphics - Power Through Complexity"

LOL, with Windows 95 it was every 3 - 6 months.

FWIW, with my MBP 2011 I got installation media for everything installed on the system (one disc with Snow Leopard, and one with everything else). Reloading from scratch should be straight forward? (haven't tried).

I also got a free upgrade to Lion (AppStore download), and can create installation media from that myself as well (DVD and/or USB stick). Apparently Lion will create a recovery partition, and with the Lion Recovery Assistant mentioned above I can create an extra copy of *that* as well (if I read it right?).

Really, if I screw up all of these options *and* don't make any backups, I have nobody but myself to blame.

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It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
Currently in commercial service: (2x)
In the museum: almost every MIPS/IRIX system.
Wanted: GM1 board for Professional Series GT graphics (030-0076-003, 030-0076-004)

Boeing was pushing out their Indigo2s and Onyx1s to surplus in about 2001. That's 5+ years.

The big thing that I have with all of these "recovery" setups is dying drives, especially in laptops. Sure, you can usually do something with dd and a lot of work (provided that there is a backup somewhere, and the vendors don't always make that easy), but it's much easier to have something that will do a bare metal install.

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Systems available for remote access on request.

(single-CM)

iPaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!!!!! LOL

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pyramid with thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?"

thats the reason why i use acronis on my intel centrino winxp laptop ..and i feel safe

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The problem isn't me - the problem is other people who haven't planned ahead and present me with a dead computer to fix.

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Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

Systems available for remote access on request.

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Time for a wardrobe make-over http://www.ebay.com/itm/400164985488

I have a similar shirt. It works

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Now this is a deep dark secret, so everybody keep it quiet
It turns out that when reset, the WD33C93 defaults to a SCSI ID of 0, and it was simpler to leave it that way... -- Dave Olson, in comp.sys.sgi
Currently in commercial service: (2x)
In the museum: almost every MIPS/IRIX system.
Wanted: GM1 board for Professional Series GT graphics (030-0076-003, 030-0076-004)

this is also very helpfull

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