[plug] WD drives coming formatted as NTFS?

[Arie Hol]

On 24 Oct 2009 at 23:11, Ari wrote:

I would say that the drives are not 'brand' new, the "System 
Volume Information" directory is where a Windows operating system stores 
all the data it needs to create "Restore Points" in order to allow for 
rolling back a corrupted system to a previously good working condition.


> Hi all,
> 
> Is Western Digital formatting their drives NTFS now? I bought a couple 
> 808GB drives on Friday and when I put them into my fedora file server 
> and went to fdisk them I found they were partitioned for NTFS already. 
> Out of curiousity I mounted one drive and found it even had a System 
> Volume Information directory on it. Is this normal? I've never put a 
> brand new drive in a linux system and have it pre-partitioned as NTFS. 
> Given that when I looked closely at the plastic clamshells they were 
> Samsung shells I'm getting concerned that the drives the shop sold me 
> are not actually brand new drives... Is this the way WD ship new drives now?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Ari
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Regards Arie
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