[plug] WD drives coming formatted as NTFS?

[jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au]

Is that really the case? Can I ask the price paid for the drives?
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From: Kevin Shackleton
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Subject: Re: [plug] WD drives coming formatted as NTFS?
Sent: Oct 25, 2009 13:50

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

On Sat, 2009-10-24 at 07:59 +0800, Jon L. Miller wrote:
> You've stated that the drives were in Samsung plastic shells? This is an
> indication that they may have been used.
> >
> >> 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.
> >>

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