Does Seagate honor OEM Apple HD warrantees

My wife's 2006 MacBook hard drive went belly up. It was a Seagate Momentus 60 GB. There is no AppleCare for this laptop. I bought a new 200 GB HD from Other World Computing and an external case, hoping to retrieve some data from this bad drive. No dice there. The new larger HD works fine in the MacBook. The old drive does not spin up in the external case. I understand that Seagate HAD a great 5 year warrantee on their HDs prior to this year. Does anyone know if they will replace the bad 60 GD drive under warrantee, or is that not done on OEM parts?
By the way, in my 24 years of Mac usage, this is the first HD that has ever gone bad in our hands!

They won't. It's in their warranty terms. They now have an OEM warranty policy, but it's 3 years after shipment to the OEM. I'd be surprised if Apple would go through that trouble. Their limited consumer warranty only applies to drive-only products sold by retailers.
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/warranty&_returns_assistance/oem_warrantystatements/
You can try using their warranty checker:
https://store.seagate.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/SgCheckWarrantyView?langId=- 1
New drives are cheap anyways. If my 60 GB drive failed, I'd seriously just consider getting a larger capacity hard drive like the following 250 GB drive for $60:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822116095

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