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Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With Refurbed Drives With Customer Data?

Posted by timothy on from the first-scan-for-gossip dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I just received 3 'refurbished' SATA drives from Newegg. All 3 had some sort of existing partition. Most appeared to be factory diagnostic partitions, but one had a full Dell Windows XP install complete with customer data. How big a deal is this? Should I contact someone besides Newegg about this?"

3 of 385 comments (clear)

  1. Re:knowledge is power by steelfood · · Score: 5, Funny

    Same thing you do with every other mostly-dead drive: Go through it and look for pr0n.

    --
    "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
  2. Bring Eye Bleach by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I once went over an "unwiped" drive looking for pron. What I found was a folder of "racy" photos the previous owner took. Unfortunately she was twenty years older than me, had about 200 lbs on me, and had a penchant for butternut squash, a food I can not eat to this day.

    Knowledge is power, ignorance is bliss, and no amount of eye bleach will remove some images.

  3. Re:knowledge is power by Stewie241 · · Score: 5, Funny

    That significantly reduces the changes of successfully making a warranty claim, and that is probably the issue.