What is the warranty on a replacement hard drive in a Macbook Pro.
I had my hard drive replaced less than a year ago, (out of warranty of course) and lo and behold it is doing the same thing again and the apple store is telling me that it is not under warranty and warranty is 90 days. Also says I need a "hard drive bracket" that should have been installed at time of replacement but that is also gonna cost me another $56.00, Maybe I should have went with a Windows computer and avoided all this costly repair on my $3000.00 paper weight.
I'm not sure exactly what the tech at the apple store was referring to when he mentioned the hd bracket. But I do know he said it includes replacing the wire that connects to the hd which sometimes becomes kinked and causes problems. When I asked him why they didn't replace it at the time of the last hd replacement he said it was not standard procedure at the time, but now Apple wants it replaced anytime a hd is replaced. In my opinion they are admitting that there is a problem and it should be replaced for free, but they don't seem to feel the same. They also said there isn't a known issue with the hd in these units, but it seems kinda weird that if that is whats wrong with mine, it will be the second time and I'm sure I don't have over 100 hours of use on it since it was replaced last time.
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