Re: running linux voids warranty?

From: Richard Corden (richard_corden_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/04/05 

Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 10:53:03 +0100

alex goldman wrote:
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> BigJim ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting )
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>>what I do is buy a second hard drive and put whatever I want on it.
>>When warranty comes into play I just put the original drive back in.
>>Dell will not honor the warranty if it does not have the original config
>>on it
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> I've been thinking about that myself. Does anyone know if the same policy
> applies to compaq presarios ? Should I just call them and ask (to have some
> minimum-wage employee in customer service make up an answer on the fly) ?

Most, if not all such companys put a disclaimer on your repair such that
if they lose all your data: "hard cheese".

Therefore, you should make a full backup anyway.

When I sent my Sony in, I backed up and then used the 'Recover CDs' to
bring the machine back to its original state. For me it has the
following benefits:

* Its always good to have a full machine backup - you never know when
   things will go real bad in the future.

* Although you may not lose your warranty, they could claim the fault
   lies in the usage of an unsupported OS. If they're nice they may then
   offer to to test it with the original OS installed and you'll lose
   your data anyway.

* Not that I'm over suspicious, but I don't like the thoughts of anybody
   routing through my private information.

Regards,

Richard 

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