Extended guarantee when purchasing laptops online?

Originally Posted by axxxo

Toshiba sattelites seem to suffer ALOT with the black screen of death.... maybe this problem has been ironed out with newer models but ive seen enough to convince me to steer clear...
If you are gonna get any of these models then an extended warranty IS A MUST

Hmmmm maybe I better get the extended warranty , But i do take extremely good care of my electronics, no one uses my stuff but me, hey I paid for it and if you wanna play with stuff get you're own

Id believe you would take care of your gizmo's but unfortunately some of them are incapable of taking care of themselves

Ahh thanks for the input, think i'll go with the extended guarantee.

Only issue i have with that now is, i'd want to do a clean install. Thing is, i use Acronis Home Image, and find it works a treat, but if i was to restore the partition incase of a virus then i'd like to reformat the hard drive, if i do that, then i may end up getting rid of the restore partition, and if i do, then i'm screwed as i'd pretty much void the guarantee? {correct me if i'm wrong}

I hate manufacturer set ups, and would want to stay clear of them. Its my laptop, let me do what i want with it and cover me at the same time already? Is it too much too ask, darn manufacturers

Originally Posted by dan-ger-ous

I hate manufacturer set ups, and would want to stay clear of them. Its my laptop, let me do what i want with it and cover me at the same time already? Is it too much too ask, darn manufacturers

I hear you, it's like you buy it but they still own it til the warranty runs out, then it's "screw you mister customer"

Most of the crap that comes preinstalled can be easily removed. I wouldnt go installing the os on a brand new system unless it was a display model where people have had their paws all over it.
Once their removed do your backup, should be fine after that.

Windows will report it in the action center to do a backup and will constantly remind you to do so unless you tell it to shut the hell up

Just be vigilant in what your installing afterwards and what you open and it will be extremely rare that you get any sort of virus, anytime ive gotten one on mine its been my own fault!

Originally Posted by axxxo

Id believe you would take care of your gizmo's but unfortunately some of them are incapable of taking care of themselves

Good point axxxo, my Hd-DvD player just stopped reading Hd-DvD discs, now I've got about 80 movies I can't watch Trying to get one off ebay, but none of the sellers will ship to Canada, I'll keep hunting though, there's gotta be one out there some where.

My personal to do with ebuyer

I bought 2 x 26" Samsung Monitors a while back, they had a 3 years manufacturers warranty, 1 year with ebuyer and 3 years with Samsung from the date of sale so one year was a waste.

When one monitor went tits up after only 3 months I contacted Ebuyer, they of course recommended I went to Samsung but after pi55ing about I got the replacement from eBuyer.

If you take out extended warranty or you have 3 years I would use ebuyer for the first year then use either the extended warranty after the year the then given warranty with the purchase.

Dont buy any of this shit the big stores have to offer for warranty, give your Dad a couple of quid a month to insure it via contents insurance.

Originally Posted by HiTeck

Dont buy any of this shit the big stores have to offer for warranty

Good advice, because it's nothing more than the big stores trying to pad their profit margin, sadly most people will probably lose their receipts and then you know the store will say "sorry sir but you must present a receipt for the extended warranty"

Originally Posted by axxxo

Most of the crap that comes preinstalled can be easily removed. I wouldnt go installing the os on a brand new system unless it was a display model where people have had their paws all over it.
Once their removed do your backup, should be fine after that.

Windows will report it in the action center to do a backup and will constantly remind you to do so unless you tell it to shut the hell up

Just be vigilant in what your installing afterwards and what you open and it will be extremely rare that you get any sort of virus, anytime ive gotten one on mine its been my own fault!

Lets say if i do get hit with a virus, and i want to restore from a previous backup, is there any way that Windows 7 will reformat the entire HDD before it restores from the backup?

Because sometimes the drive is still affected by the aftermath of the virus if its not reformatted first and then the back up is restored.

Update:

Found the answer. Cheers axxxo, wont be needing Acronis for this one then.

7. To Do a Full System Image Recovery
NOTE: This option will format everything on each hard disk drive that was included in the system image, then restore them as they were when the system image was created.

Just practice safe computing and surfing Dan, have a good firewall and anti-virus installed and you should be safe and keep away from those questionable sites