On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 17:40:54 +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: > I've twice swapped the drive on dead Mac laptops for a non-Apple > ones prior to sending them for repair. In both cases I kept the > original disk, chucked in whatever compatible laptop drive was lying > around, installed Mac OS on the new disk and sent it for repair. In > both cases I told them what I'd done. They didn't complain and it > didn't affect the warranty. Why bother putting a replacement in? When I sent my wife's PC to Dell for repair, they actually suggested that I remove the disk first. This was to avoid the embarrassment of accidental data loss during overly zealous trouble shooting. -- Peter Haworth pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com "To be effective, an assasin must be invisible as well as deadly, hiding behind the most innocent disguise. A bowl of beef ramen metamorphoses into a fearsome ninja; an apparently harmless can of tea becomes a sword-wielding samurai of death. With Lunchbots, each meal may be your last!" -- A now nonexistent web page