Old-school computer users will remember what it used to be like to restore a system. In the early days of Windows, reinstalling was a 3.5-inch floppy disk project; later systems saw a disk-and-CD combination, which was followed by a set of recovery discs that are all but obsolete by 2011. Manufacturers like HP now ship systems with a recovery partition, and users are left to their own devices to find backup media.
