[plug] WD drives coming formatted as NTFS?

Marcos Raul Carot Collins marcos.carot at gmail.com
Sun Oct 25 12:59:58 WST 2009


On Dom, 25 Oct 2009 12:50:45 PM Kevin Shackleton escribió:
> Might not these drives have been recovered stock from a batch of drives
> set up for PC installation that never made it in the run.  Therefore
> they would have been bulk copied but never actually used.  They would
> have been sold off cheap and presumably bought cheap, with free mounting
> brackets.
> 
> I don't see anything wrong with that, so long as there wasn't deceptive
> practice.
> 
> Kevin
> 
If sold as "new" they should be new, otherwise is unethical and possibly 
illegal.

If they have been intended for another use, formated for that purpose,  then 
they are used, even if it was for a few minutes, and when sold they should 
state that.

New is new, used is used.

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Marcos Raúl Carot Collins
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