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[RoseFireLite]

I have a friend that has a Acer Aspire 7250 aab70 the hard drive crashed. She calls me up way too early in the morning for me in tears. I ask "What's wrong?" She says "My computer DIED!!! Now how am I suppose to do my transcribing?"
I think she is just being over-dramatic "bring it over" I said I thought maybe she had just pushed F-12 or whatever the F key takes you to the BIOS window. I was very surprised to find that she had in fact had killed her hard drive. She has no money until her next pay check and I had an old SATA hard drive from my dead Gateway NV.

  So now the poor Aspire thinks it is a Gateway NV!!! I hope I'm not violating too many laws! 

(We are going to buy a new SATA from Newegg as soon as we can!)

[mazen]

Sorry to hear this but, you are not violating any rule by replacing the HD.

Good Luck

[Vince53]

Rose, it was nice of you to help her. Most hard drives are made by a small number of companies, who then sell them to computer manufacturers. It is not illegal to swap out a hard drive.

[RoseFireLite]

I wasn't sure if Hard Drives are proprietary or not! I just found it funny that an acer thinks it is a gateway! 

[Vince53]

Rose, the world needs more friends like you. Humorously enough, Acer bought out Gateway, which had bought out E machines. Gateway had been a very profitable company at the turn of the century, but in order to cut costs, they fouled-up everything. When Acer bought them, Gateway had lost over 80% of its value.