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Western Digital Shady
I just thought I would mention this because I thought it was kind of strange.
About 2 weeks ago I bought a new Western Digital Caviar Blue 500Gb HDD with 16Mb cache. The drive failed the other day. I needed to recover all of my music from the drive. Because the drive would power up and read but would not hold a partition properly I was able to recover all of my files.
Now this is where things get weird. I ran the recovery tool Easeus Data Recovery Wizard Pro. By the way best 70 bucks you will ever spend it works fantastic.
When the scan finished and I was looking at my files I noticed something that was out of place. I bought the drive new not a refurb or any of that crap this is supposed to be a new drive. The problem is that the recovery wizard found a whole bunch of office documents among other things on the drive. When I bought the drive I installed it partitioned and formatted and then pushed all my music onto the drive.
I never put any office docs or other crap on that drive just music files.
So what's the deal? Did western digital cut corners and put used platters in the drive and slap a new tag on it? I would not be happy with that if it were the case and I doubt many other people would be.
Any of you remember all the trouble various computer companies have gotten into for using parts that were not factory new in the PCs they sold? Would this not fit under that same type of thing? You are basically lying to customers if you put a used platter in a hard drive and say that it is a factory new drive.
I plan to buy another new drive and before anything is moved to the drive run the recovery tool on it and see what comes up.