Reason why you want to create those DVD's is so that you can reinstall the OS and partition should the HD fail. With that utilitiy you can restore to factory and also create DVD sets 1-2 DVD's that basically makes a recovery cd from the image on the partition. The laptop will also have it's own branded software utility HP, DELL, TOSHIBA etc under the start button. Most laptops today have 500GB drives or more. Any laptop you buy today that comes with the OS typically Windows 8 or 8.1 will have a factory recovery partition of 8-10GB in size.