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

[Stuart Thiessen]

That's what I have usually seen: one preformatted Windows partition.

Stuart

On 19 Nov 2007, at 15:30 , 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
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