I would venture under ordinary contract law in the US that if the announcement was that drives sold or installed after 10/1/02 would have only a one year warranty, that any drive installed or sold before that date would still have a three year warranty.  Manufacturers would be inviting class action litigation if they shortened the warranties of drives sold before 10/1/02.  That old 3-year warranty was buried in the price of the drive, and there ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

>How does it normally work?
>I mean if two months ago you boght a WD or Maxtor or whatever brand, and
>they said to you the HDD was 2 yr warrantied and suddenly they changed to 1
>yr warranty.  What about those who boght before? The buying conditions and
>warranty are kept?


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