[Cialug] OT: Not that you needed another reason to hate maxtor

[Nathan Stien]

On Nov 19, 2007 3:21 PM, Claus <cniesen at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hard drives are pre-formated.  The article even states that Seagate is
> giving out a 60-day trial of kaspersky labs antivirus.  So a common
> virus was placed on the hard drive.  Moral of the story: format your
> hard drives.

It has never even occurred to me to try looking at a new hard drive
without manually putting a filesystem onto it myself.  So HDs
typically come with one big FAT32 or NTFS partition on them?

- Nathan