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And especially where I live, in a Mountain Resort community that is quite rural. Not only do most of my Clients not make recovery discs, when I ask them if they have the discs that came in the box with their computer or laptop, they look at me like Klaatu when he landed in his space ship in the original sci-fi movie "THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL" in 1951. I would estimate that only 20% of my Clients have their recovery discs and can actually lay their hands on them. Maybe 10% know what they are used for, and probably about 5% or less have actually gone through the process of using the built-in factory app and created recovery discs if their computer did not come with recovery discs out of the box. And probably about 1% or less use some kind of Image Cloning software and actually have tested it. Most of those are in my local computer club, and are much more savvy than my average Clients, and many have attended my Backup Workshops. Circling around, it all comes back to Education or lack of it. People who take computer classes, or read books about computers are probably 3x more likely to either have their recovery discs or know enough to keep them, since they understand their purpose and what and when they are used for. That's one of the areas that inspired me to become a computer technology teacher.
