Re: Re: New disk drives
  By: Nelgin to All on Wed Jul 18 2007 11:29:00

 > > Not 'new' meaning that they are state-of-the-art or cutting-edge.  'New',
 > > meaning they have never been used before and have just been purchased by
 > > me.
 > 
 > Never assume that. I went to Fry's and picked up a 160MB Maxtor drive.
 > Plugged it in to install Windoze for a customer and it said an operating
 > system was already on the disk. Decided to pull it and see what was
 > going on. Appears to have had Vista installed and partially removed.

Well, I specifically said I wanted *NEW* drives, not reconditioned units 
or 'field-tested' disks, and I watched him pull the drives from a box with 
the seals still in place.  When the drives went into the machine, there 
were no partitions on them.

I guess they could still be pulling a fast one, but I'm going to assume 
not.


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