On 7/23/2011 7:47 AM, Mick wrote:
On Saturday 23 Jul 2011 07:25:42 Mike Edenfield wrote:
I seem to recall a case where a user wiped their drive clean and installed Ubuntu or some such. The laptop went faulty and the person asked for it to be repaired/replaced under warranty, only to be told that this could not be honoured without the original OS on the machine! I think it was this one:
I'm actually speaking from experience here: the first thing I did on my Inspiron was wipe the HD and install Gentoo, only to learn that the wireless card was faulty. And since I could not run the standard Windows diagnostics they couldn't (wouldn't?) help me.
So I booted the restore CD, put Windows back, and got a new NIC within about a week.
--Mike
