topic Does replacing a harddrive invalidate my warranty? in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/does-replacing-a-harddrive-invalidate-my-warranty/m-p/692331#M10197 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi - I've recently received a new Sony Vaio SVE1712Z1EB following a problem with my old Sony Vaio. I was wondering whether replacing the new harddrive with the one from the old laptop (as it had all my stuff on it and was win7 rather than win8) would invalidate my warranty, and whether if I were to need to claim under my warranty I could just place the new hard drive back in and then send it off?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:56:54 GMT luhares 2013-03-23T19:56:54Z Does replacing a harddrive invalidate my warranty? https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/does-replacing-a-harddrive-invalidate-my-warranty/m-p/692331#M10197 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi - I've recently received a new Sony Vaio SVE1712Z1EB following a problem with my old Sony Vaio. I was wondering whether replacing the new harddrive with the one from the old laptop (as it had all my stuff on it and was win7 rather than win8) would invalidate my warranty, and whether if I were to need to claim under my warranty I could just place the new hard drive back in and then send it off?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:56:54 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/does-replacing-a-harddrive-invalidate-my-warranty/m-p/692331#M10197 luhares 2013-03-23T19:56:54Z Re: Does replacing a harddrive invalidate my warranty? https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/does-replacing-a-harddrive-invalidate-my-warranty/m-p/692332#M10198 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi luhares and welcome.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">Opening the case will invalidate the warranty as long as Sony can see it has been opened.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;">I don't know which model you had previously but I think the BIOS will be different on a new model and a straight swap may need extra steps to be taken.</SPAN></P><P><BR /></P><P><SPAN style="font-size: 12pt;"><img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://community.sony.lt/html/@13A2E6A3774A8B47B4EC6F04089539E1/images/smilies/063.png" alt=":thinking:" title=":thinking:" /><BR /></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:52:56 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/does-replacing-a-harddrive-invalidate-my-warranty/m-p/692332#M10198 Blencogo 2013-03-23T21:52:56Z Re: Does replacing a harddrive invalidate my warranty? https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/does-replacing-a-harddrive-invalidate-my-warranty/m-p/692333#M10199 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Ok thanks - I had the exact same laptop before but with an intel i5 rather than i7. Would that make a difference?<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:57:53 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/does-replacing-a-harddrive-invalidate-my-warranty/m-p/692333#M10199 luhares 2013-03-23T21:57:53Z