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    Will Changing Hard Drives Void The Warranty?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by blinkme_210, Aug 7, 2004.

  1. blinkme_210

    blinkme_210 Notebook Enthusiast

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    As the topic states, will changing out the factory hard drive for a Hitachi Travelstar 7200RPM hard drive void the HP/Compaq warranty? Because there no are stickers or seals anywhere on the bottom of the laptop stating that doing so will void it.
     
    blinkme_210, Aug 7, 2004
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    Without having your warranty in hand, I don't know...hopefully you kept it so you can read it.

    However my suggestion would be that as long as you can change the harddrive in a modular fashion without changing anything else on the notebook (which you can) then if anything goes wrong with the laptop down the road then just slip the old harddrive back in before sending it back to HP. If the warranty was voided because of changing a hard drive it'd be a rascally move on HP's part as swapping a hard drive, unless you break the laptop while putting the hard drive in (i.e. screwdriver slips and you pierce the motherboard or something) then changing it should not affect whether a notebook breaks in any way.
     
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  3. Venombite

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    No, I don't believe you will void your warranty for replacing the HDD. I believe the HDD is on their End User Replaceable parts list. the ERP or EURP are parts that can be easily change by the customer so it doesn't have to be sent in for service. The HDD is shipped to you complete, unscrew your old HDD from the notebook and swap. You then just ship the entire old HDD to HP and you're done.

    But as what Abaxter suggested, just keep the old HDD handy and swap back if you need to send the unit in for service.

    -Vb-
     
    Venombite, Aug 8, 2004
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    Well I was thinking of swapping in a Hitachi Travelstar 40GB 7200RPM... and it's pretty much guaranteed to fit perfectly right?
     
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    Yes.
     
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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by blinkme_210
     
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    No, we consider the hard drive a customer replacable part. Change at will. We just can't guarantee compatibility with the new hard drive unless it was purchased from us(I haven't seen a compatibility problem yet).

    Josh
     
    Josh, Aug 10, 2004
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