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More info?)
No recalls of OEM or retail Windows despite all the defects. Lots of recalls of
Bridgestone OEM tires on Ford Explorers. The difference? Bridgestone tires led
to deaths and serious personal injury. Windows only leads to lost time and
money, although there may be folk tales about suicides in the IT tech support
world.
Anyway, I was only warning the OP that drive manufacturers track OEM and retail
sales of drives. Whether or not a mfr honors the warranty on an OEM drive all
depends. But probably not... Ben Myers
On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 08:10:08 -0400, "Tom Scales" <tomtoo@softhome.net> wrote:
>But that's ridiculous. Do you expect the parts manufacturers of every part
>in your car to individually warranty the part? No, the assembler -- the car
>company does.
>
>XP and a hard drive are just parts.
>
>Tom
><ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
>news:416fb434.457134@news.charter.net...
>> It would be worth a try. Several hard drive manufacturers in tracking
>> drive
>> serial numbers indicate that the drive is an OEM drive not eligible for
>> direct
>> warranty service. Seems just like the long-used Microsoft ploy of
>> denying
>> users support for a broken Winddows product sold thru OEM channels. The
>> computer industry manages to ignore Harry Truman's "The buck stops here."
>> Of
>> course, it's not just the computer industry now, is it?
>>
>> ... Ben Myers
>>
>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 23:37:49 -0400, "schnoopy" <schnoopy@loppy.com> wrote:
>>
>>>And even if the drive isn't covered by Dell it might still be covered by
>>>Western Digital. Run the serial number on their website ASAP. They
>>>pre-ship a replacement (two day delivery) if it is covered. And get that
>>>disk backed up QUICK!
>>>
>>>http://websupport.wdc.com/warranty/serialinput.asp?custtype=end&requesttype=warranty&lang=en
>>>
>>>Assuming of course it is a WD...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>><ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers)> wrote in message
>>>news:416f285b.47262221@news.charter.net...
>>>> If the system is still under warranty, call Dell and ask them to send
>>>> you
>>>a
>>>> replacement drive. Check the warranty status of the system on the Dell
>>>web site
>>>> using the Dell service tag. If Dell agrees to send you a replacement,
>>>they'll
>>>> want a credit card number as security until you return the bad drive.
>>>>
>>>> I did a drive replacement for a client recently using a Dell supplied
>>>drive. I
>>>> used Seagate's Disk Wizard to clone the drive. Lost an icon or two in
>>>> the
>>>> process... Ben Myers
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 08:58:09 -0500, Terry
>>><gobeyondgobeyond@Rem0ve.Yahoo.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> >I have been seeing this error message at boot up for a Dimension 4500.
>>>> >It comes right after POST before going into Windows XP.
>>>> >
>>>> >"Pri Master Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. status BAD. Backup and Replace.
>>>> >Press
>>>> >Space bar to continue"
>>>> >
>>>> >After pressing space bar, it goes into XP without any problem. I did a
>>>> >hard drive test using Dell Diagnostic and it did not find anything
>>>> >wrong.
>>>> >
>>>> >Should I be concerned about this?
>>>> >
>>>> >Thanks in advance!
>>>> >
>>>> >Terry
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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