A bootable CD-ROM or DVD-ROM that contains the original ... In lieu of an optical recovery disc, vendors often store the recovery image on a separate partition on the hard drive.

If you are a 90s kid, then chances are that you are not unaware of the Compact Disc-Read Only Memory (CD-ROM). They played a ...

But the advent of CD-ROM, USB drives and improved hard disk capabilities marked the beginning of the end for floppy disks.