Matt Hyclak wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:07:25AM -0700, MHR enlightened us: >> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:26 AM, Anne Wilson >> <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: >>> I had similar messages on this laptop. Acer accepted liability and replaced >>> the disk. >>> >> I'm pretty sure the Seagate warranty is no longer in force - most of >> them are a year. Maxtor's are, for sure - I've had to go through that >> once before, and they were quite cooperative, too, but that was a few >> years back (before Seagate bought them). >> > > Seagate has a 5 year warranty on its drives. You might check again. > Just put the serial number in here: http://support.seagate.com/customer/warranty_validation.jsp -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com