My thing is under warranty for the next 3 years but i have alot of shit i dont wanna lose (it’s vista) so i dont wanna go through the hassle of re-torrenting about 20 different programs
Right now i’m x-fering all the files to an external so i can have a backup.
It worked on saturday night, and i moved it from home to school in my bag (the laptop doesn’t move inside of it)
Suggestions.
That is just hardware, should be no different from replacing the keyboard. Why do you think they need to format your drive?
it’s an HP and they are notorious from just running from problems.
True that. Where did you buy it from? At Best Buy if the product is still under MFG W we will actually do all the shipping for you.
my campus computer store… it was l ike a grand cheaper than BB
But i have one of them expensive anything goes warranties… so if i decided to hit it with a sledge hammer i could get it replaced.
Companies will format it just for the hell of it sometimes. When i sent my Dell in, I removed the HD. I suggest Shodokan do the same. Just make sure it’s ok with HP before you do so.
get norton ghost. you can backup your entire drive and format it before you send it in so they won’t go snooping around for pirated shit.
when you get it back you can restore your computer just to how exactly it was.
Technically, HP or your campus store should pay shipping since you have a warranty. I wouldn’t worry too much about them reformatting, it sounds like a hardware defect and they have no reason to reformat.
That doesn’t mean they won’t format though. I’d definitely have a backup/remove hard drive before I shipped it in.
I know that Dell sends out techs to your house for repairs, HP does not do this?
i fixed it… some how my driver files got corrupted.
I agree with the others, you should always back up your stuff before sending it in for repair. Although i don’t see why they’d screw around with files/HDD over a hardware issue, but you never know what they might do.
Edit:
Oh cool. I love my laptop, it would suck if something internal like that got messed up.
Something like the HDD, disc drive, or keyboard? No problem to replace on your own. Speakers however probably would mean taking apart the whole damn thing piece by piece, and hope one does not screw up in the process and make it worse.