Many computer service centers will try to sell you upgrades to the new laptop computer you are buying. I worked for one such company and they would have us open the laptop and add memory or replace the current sata or ssd drive with a different hard drive. One other trick they would do is clone the hard drive from one computer to all the computers and then change the product license key number.
This is voiding the warranty on the laptops and desktops if they were not built by the company. If they built the computer, then they can upgrade items in it. The cloning of one computer and then cloning to all is a violation of the oem license agreement. The windows 10 oem software is only to be installed once on the computer it was sold with.
As far as laptops go, if it is a brand such as Dell, Hewlett Packard, Lenovo, Asus, Acer Etc.... , it is against the warranty for anyone that is not warranty certified to open that laptop and change anything. Some manufacturers are smart enough to place a warranty sticker inside, so they can tell if someone was in it. The problem is that some service centers with use heat to loosen the adhesive, to remove the sticker and then put it back in place.
We had one instance where we were to clone the current sata drive to a ssd drive that came out of previous laptops where the ssd was replaced. We then had to clone the sata to the ssd and then run the install set up on the ssd. If the manufacturer ever gets one of these for warranty repair. I am sure they are going to question this and not cover it under warranty.
So you may be asking, how does the service center get away with this ? Well they try to always get the customer to bring the laptop in, so they can replace the drives back to the original configuration before they send it in for warranty repair. Any way you look at it, it is deceitful and dishonest. I would never do business with any company using these illegal tactics.
If you see this kind of thing going on, turn them into the manufacturer.
