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Couldn't she just reinstall windows and send it back?

• pavel_lishin 14y ago
  Sure, if she wanted to go through the hassle, and paying the shipping. Not to mention, the laptop may not have come with an installation disk.
• grecy 14y ago
  That would depend on how dead the machine is. Let's assume we're talking about a dead screen, motherboard or power supply.... it's going to be hard to re-install windows then.
  • danielweber 14y ago
    You could get a second hard drive. Pull the first one out, put the second one in, do whatever you want. When/if it's time to return, put the first drive back in. They'll wonder why you've barely used it but whatever. I did this when laptops were $1500. Now that they are $400 it's usually not worth the bother.
• pbhjpbhj 14y ago
  The purchaser would have good reason to zero out the drive before return. That would protect personal data and coincidentally not leak any additional usage info to the supplier.