<A target="_blank" href="http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/359998/the-recovery-disc-rip-off">A new PC used to come with a manual and some disks. If anything went terribly wrong,</A> you could start over. Nowadays, you're lucky to get a packing list. And if your hard drive dies, the recovery partition holding the "system CD" isn't going to do much for you.