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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?"

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  1. knowledge is power by louic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    First, have a look at the data. Then decide.

    1. Re:knowledge is power by uncledrax · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Until you find out it had kiddie porn, and simple possession is pretty felonous these days.

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  2. Re:Two choices... by Korin43 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Instead of choice 1 and choice 2, I would say step 1 and step 2:

    1. Inform Newegg that there's a problem with their process (considering this is on Slashdot, this may already be done).
    2. Erase the drives.
    3. ???
    4. Profit