In any case do not pay £200 for a hard drive replacement. It costs nowhere near that to buy a hard drive!

The law certainly states that it is the seller, and not the manufacturer, that is responsible for sorting any problems out. As to whether they can legitimately say that a hard drive failing after 3 months is acceptable I do not know for sure, but I strongly suspect not.

As above your Claim is with Curry's not HP. and still is. if you paid by Credit Card you can get your money back through them if the seller does not fix it

My sister bought a brand new laptop from Argos last summer.The laptop developed a fault ( hard drive was faulty).She took the laptop back to Argos, and they dealt with it.Two weeks later she got her laptop back , fixed.

I bought an HP laptop 3yrs ago.A few weeks ago,it expired so I took it to a local repair shop and was told that "HP laptops have a design fault with Nvidia graphics chips" but I still asked that they try & repair it.The repair cost me £65 and lasted 36hrs before expiring again,so I googled HP+nvidia error & discovered that under the Sale of Goods act,the laptop has a SIX year warranty with Currys,not the manufacturer.I had to wait a few days before I could call into Currys(the store in town closed awhile back)& the Tech guys instore insisted that it was out of warranty and that I'd have to pay for a repair.I pointed out that the problem was a design fault & repairing was not an option and only a refund/replacement would be suitable(As detailed here)The Tech guy said I'd need get in touch with head office as he couldn't authorize a refund/replacement without their say so.I have printed out a letter to send to head office,but I'm going to wait until after xmas to send it as it states in the letter "formally giving you 7 days..." and I doubt they'll respond in the middle of xmas.I doubt if I'll get anywhere,but a stamp is cheaper than a failed repair,and if I succeed then I'll no longer own a very expensive doorstop.