This is good advise for a couple another reasons.
Very often what you will restore TO may be slightly different than what is
on the HD originally.
Call it "time lag" to get the Restore CD into production...
You may even find out things are missing...

BUT, even worse than that, when doing that first restore, you may be notified
by the software that the restore disk is NOT the correct one for your system,
"Do you want to continue anyway?"  (I have had this happen.)
Before I could get the CD replaced, the 30 day "take back" would have
expired, so back it went...
                      Rick Glazier

> but when a format and reinstall from
> the restore disk is done it solves the problems just like yours did. I do not
> have a reason why but I will say that I suggest to the customers who purchase
> a computer from me that before they put anything important on it they should
> do a format/restore.     > Bradley Marden

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