You could strip down the Windows install, getting rid of the bloatware,
the Office package that it came with, etc., and just leave the
diagnostics in. The only problem that I can think of is that if you
have a hard drive problem, the diagnostics will only check the Windows
sector. As I remember (I don't dual boot,) Windows doesn't know that it
is sharing a hard drive with Linux. It thinks that the Linux partitions
don't exist and the hard drive is smaller than it actually is.
Robert Mark Wallace
PO Box 11144
Newburgh, NY 12552-1114
Telephone:(845)-541-7396
On 12-11-08 07:11 PM, Adam wrote:
Mark Wallace wrote:
They will still honor the warranty if you take Windows off of it.
The problem is that the computer comes with a program called PC
Doctor. If you need a warranty servicing, PC doctor generates a
code that helps them identify the problem.
I returned a laptop that was Linux only and taking Windows off of it
didn't bother compaq. They just said that they were only responsible
for the hardware. They could figure out what was wrong without
running PC doctor.
I just had to ship my HP desktop back for in-warranty repair. I
overwrote the entire internal HD using 'dd' before sending it, and
nobody commented on it. The tech probably wasn't surprised at all.
He/she might have overwritten the whole HD anyway, to start with a
"standard" Windows install rather than one I might have messed up. It
came back with a full install of Windows.
I'm keeping Windows on the internal HD (after shrinking the partition)
at least until the warranty expires, because if there are any more
problems, they'll probably ask me to try some diagnostics that run
under Windows.
Adam
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