[plug] WD drives coming formatted as NTFS?

[Jon L. Miller]

You've stated that the drives were in Samsung plastic shells? This is an
indication that they may have been used.  Take them back to the vendor and
point out your case.  If they refuse to give you new drives in the
anti-static bags or if they are giving you "used" drives report to the
proper authorities plain and simple.
No drives brand new drives should have any partition of any OS on them.

Jon

On Sun, October 25, 2009 07:21, Marcos Raul Carot Collins wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Can you tell us where you bought those disks? if they sold you used disks
> as
> new as it probably is the case, they deserve all the negative publicity...
>
> And I would't buy from them anything.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
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Jon L. Miller MCNE CNE CCNA
East Perth, WA 6004
WA, Australia
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