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    clearing hdd (for linux install) void warranty ?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by k0smik0, Feb 29, 2008.

  1. k0smik0

    k0smik0 Newbie

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    hi guys

    i would totally clear my new lenovo 3000 n200 hdd (containing vista and a strange recovery hidden partition) to install debian.

    However, i don't void my (hardware) warranty...
    I did not able to find anything about this, in lenovo site and so on, for these days, neither in this forum.

    Obviously, i'm not interesting in sw assistance and so on; i'm just interesting about hardware substitution, if anything will broke. And i suppose that substitution can be done also without any os installed inside... isn't ?

    Anyone can explain me more about this trouble ?
    or/also can links me urls where i can read exactly about this ?

    thanks in advance,

    Massimiliano
     
    k0smik0, Feb 29, 2008
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  2. Lithus

    Lithus NBR Janitor

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    No. Installing linux will not void your warranty, though Lenovo may elect to stop software support unless you're using the operating system that came with the machine.
     
    Lithus, Feb 29, 2008
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  3. steve p

    steve p Notebook Evangelist

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    Why not shrink the Vista partition(to the smallest workable size) and install the distro of you choice on the freed-up space? I have Vista and Ubuntu(default) on my R61t.
    It works just fine plus when I am ready to sell it there will be no issues.
    Good luck
     
    steve p, Feb 29, 2008
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  4. googoobaby

    googoobaby Notebook Enthusiast

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    I totally wiped my T61p on arrival. I didn't even make image CDs. My thought was (and is) that when it's time to pass this machine along, Vista will be just a bad memory anyway and I'd have to whomp up a Windows 7 (or whatever stupid name they release it under) distribution anyway.

    P.S. I have an XP virtual machine that I can fire up under Linux for the few cases I actually need Windows. It's so much nicer this way than when I was using dual-boot.
     
    googoobaby, Mar 1, 2008
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