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

[Claus]

On 11/19/2007 3:30 PM, Nathan Stien wrote:
> 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

In this case it is actually an external drive (Maxtor Basics Personal 
Storage 3200).  I assume it's FAT32 as one can use both, Windows and OS X.
   Claus