Proposal: Preinstalled Bare-Metal Recovery App for Windows 11 (Feedback Hub Link)

I'm sure Toshiba had a factory image for when the laptop was shipped. And in the W8 days, it was common for OEM's to create a recovery partition where you could initiate a push-button reset back to a known Windows image. Unfortunately that recovery image was never updated and would be out-of-date a few years after you first purchased the PC.

These days, it's a less common for vendors to ship a factory recovery partition. Though some OEM's still do.

If you don't have the option to create a restore image from a freshly delivered PC, or the vendor doesn't provide the complete set of drivers, there are methods to export the current set of 3rd-party drivers from a live system.

The driver set can then be integrated to a current Windows install image. Of course, this doesn't help if the drivers are too old be supported by the new Windows. You may have hunt down a modern-day equivalent of the original driver.

JHDHD said:

without paying

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Most of the computer industry wants US to buy new hardware, repeatedly.
Microsoft is one of the major leaders in this, and motherboard manufacturers are doing the same thing.
You can hardly even find Win 7 or Win 8 drivers on the manufacturer's websites'

If you could keep updating the operating system on old hardware... they won't make money.

I could link 100 topics that would show you this.

But I'll just link this one... it's 159 pages, so far...



You're not the only one, by far, that feels as you do. ^^


I bought this $400 motherboard in May 2020, and they only have Win10/11 drivers...

This is the only driver listed under the "Other" operating systems heading...



So even if I wanted, I couldn't put Win 7/8/8.1 on this motherboard.

I don't know. So everyone says no to this proposed app?

JHDHD said:

I don't know. So everyone says no to this proposed app?

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We're just trying to save you some time.
Your method (Feedback Hub), is excellent, but the idea isn't gonna fly, these days.

The corporations don't want your idea to work. If it does... they'll not make as much money. ^^





Think back to the early 2000's, when some nasty Grinch, thought up DLC for games.
They made bazillions with DLC (downloadable content).

The original, three Diablo II discs cost about $60. They were chapters one thru four.
Then it cost another $60 for the fifth chapter (fourth disc), which was needed to finish the game. ^^





The hardware folks saw that, and they wanted a piece of the pie.
Now, they are getting it too. ^^

I know it's popular and, to some people, clever to blame the evil corporations for everything, but what company in their right mind wants to keep content around for a 2013 laptop that probably four people still have? If it was that important to one, one should have put a ring on it backed it up.