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)
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.
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.
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.