Daniel Dalton wrote:
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008, Tony Baechler wrote:
Daniel Dalton wrote:
There is another option. Remove the original drives and replace them.
If you have some other hardware problem, put the original drives back
in before you get it repaired. You could also make full image backups
of the original hard disks and restore them if necessary. Personally,
I wouldn't worry too much
Well, wouldn't they be able to tell that I opened up the box?
And that may also void the worrenty?
Yes, I'm sorry. After I wrote that, I thought about it and realized
that yes, opening the machine may void your warranty. However, most
computers are designed so you can add more or bigger drives, so just
changing drives shouldn't matter. This also lets you go back to your
original, plain vanilla Windows install if you wish.
So if I used different hard disks there would be no way of them
telling what I did?
As long as you put the original drives back or restore from a backup
image of the original drives, that should be correct. They could
probably tell that you changed drives but that's about it. Note: I am
not a lawyer and this is not a legal opinion. The shop or HP would be
the ones to ask, but I've read that switching hard disks should avoid
the problem. That's what we did with all of the Dell machines because
they only came with 20 GB drives at the time and had their hidden Dell
partition.
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