Re: Cheapest Toshiba Parts in UK

Boysie wrote:
"Walker" <walker.moore@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:DcmdnR4u2dN2JY3ZRVnyrQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Frazer Jolly Goodfellow wrote:
"Boysie" <Boysie@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:aLidnWS9w9RZoo3ZRVny3w@xxxxxxxxx:
Check on the HDD manufacturer's website as the old drive may
still be under guarantee, in which case they may supply you with
a new or service exchange reconditioned drive for the trouble
and cost of sending the old one back. Worth a few minutes to
check, I'd say.
Definitely worth checking. However, the response may be that warranty responsibility lies with the OEM = Toshiba! Hence its also worth checking with the OEM - Toshiba's PC division.
I checked but unfortunately, even if the HDD was covered separately to the laptop (one year), the warranty would've been for two years. Spoke to a few people at Tosh and they all doubted the HDD would be covered separately anyway.

The amount of BS that manufacturer's plebes spout is legion! It is doubtful if the HDD manuf will bother to look up to whom he supplied the HDD just to inform you that "Sorry it's outside the 12 month period of the laptop manuf". I just returned a Seagate 2.5 drive and obtained a factory recon one. Don't bother with Tosh, look on the HDD manuf website

....thanks for the advice, but Toshiba manufactured both HDD and laptop. (I provided the model number elsewhere in the thread.) A quick website check will reveal that all Tosh HDDs are covered by a two year warranty. The laptop is two years, four months old. So the HDD warranty has expired whichever way you look at it.

Cheers,

Walker
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