MS Might Share Some Blame
I was under the impression that MS were trying to halt the sale of media to allow PCs to be re-installed with Windows and that this was why you have those awful restore partitions -with their disk dies machine dies issues. Or the 'You have 30 second to make restore media do it now - before you have the media onto which to make the restore data available!
The first thing would be to promote the sale of crap free install media, Dell certainly used to do this and I have several re-install disks for various machines.
As others have said strongly, the second thing would be to be honest, this machine is sponsored by Shit Shovellers Anonymous, crap free version yours for £ X, X US or whatever currency.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
