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February 9, 2012 04:05 pm

Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With Refurbed Drives With Customer Data?


An anonymous reader writes "I just received 3 'refurbished' SATA drives from Newegg. All 3 had some sort of existing partition. Most appeared to be factory diagnostic partitions, but one had a full Dell Windows XP install complete with customer data. How big a deal is this? Should I contact someone besides Newegg about this?"

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