Hard drive question

[jason786]

Hey, I had an internet Western Digital hard drive which basically died

I sent it back for a replacement under the warranty, it's unformatted and has some stuff on it (not too personal)

I wasn't able to format it myself, but was wondering if they would wipe it etc?

 

[1Bowtie]

If the drive was already dead, then they will probably through it in the scap heap or refurbish it still no prob with your old data, nobody will ever see it

 

[jason786]

Not sure on the condition, but basically messages had been popping up on windows saying that a problem was detected with my hard drive

The hard drive also failed S.M.A.R.T scans etc

Then, when it completely failed, I tried reinstallaing windows, but the hard drive didn't appear in the boot menu / list of hard drives