Hi..
Was just wondering how come none has focused on the attrocities the OEMs (Big Names) do to the common mass. We pay for bundled software but still have to be at their whims. Can some light be thrown on how to extract the "OS only" in a bootable form(Extracting Sys Drivers is not a new thing I believe) from the recovery media so that one can make as many partitions of the HDD (Not considering the multi booting feature-as it may be against vendor's policy) but just multiple partitions so that if the OS gets corrupted or needs reinstallation one need not backup the entire HDD at the cost of precious time and efforts.
If not extracting anything out of the recovery media, at least pls educate on how to edit the recovery media to customise so that instead of reformatting the entire HDD it should recognise/ create partitions just like the Retail Versions.
I think "WAIK" is a tool for such purpose, but just want to know the "How-to"..if some one can explain pls...Also I believe WAIK is a free download from MS site but the volume being about 900 MB (or so), which is a month's download limit for people like me, it would be very nice if the same can be included in the comming issue of Digit DVD...
Sorry for being so elaborate....this being my first ever post on this forum, should be excused..
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