Hmmm... odd
So, yesterday in a ltitle mishap I partially formated my E: drive. Not too big a deal except that the E: drive is where I store... ALL MY WORK. But hell, no one to blame but myself.
Anyways, today I try and run a disc/file recovery program. And here's the odd thing... it's recovering a bunch of files... but none of them are familiar to me. Lots of HP related stuff, porn images and game files for games I don't play. Photographs taken with cameras I don't own. Checking the date of the files show that it predates my purchase of the hard drive too (only bought it a couple months back... a lot of files are from last year). Hard drive was bought brand new too... or so I thought. heh
Odd shit.
ROzbeans
20 years ago
I remembering hearing a news story about some old hard drives that were recovered from like garage sales that turned out to be old military used equipment. They were able to recover a lot of interesting stuff. Maybe your hard drive wasn't brand new...?
Vex
20 years ago
obviously wasn't brand new =P but that is super creepy.
Saraquael
20 years ago
Heh yeah. I wonder if I can bitch at them and get some kind of break. I mean hell, I purchased a retail new drive... not a refurb one with trace photos of some guy's girlfriend.
ROzbeans
20 years ago
Post pics!
Larry
20 years ago
Wow, where did you get it, I certainly don't want to shop there.
... and post pics.
... and post pics.
Saraquael
20 years ago
It was a Seagate 400gb drive that I bought from outpost.com. It was actually sealed in the anti static bag... so not sure if it's Seagate or Outpost that messed with it.
Prosecution
20 years ago
All Hard Drive manufactures will recycle drives they get back. For example:
Customer #1 buys a 400gb HD from CompUSA, then returns it for whatever reason.
CompUSA RTV's the drive to Seagate
Seagate checks the drive and finds the magnetic platters are ok, but the drive bios is fouled up. Seagate removes the magnetic platters puts them in a new housing with a new bios. Formats the drive, seals it, resells it.
Customer #2 (you!) buys the drive. Then does an undelete on it. Finds Customer #1's porn.
The solution: Check and see if you can find any personal information on the guy, and if you can give him a call and discuss his taste in porn with his wife.
Customer #1 buys a 400gb HD from CompUSA, then returns it for whatever reason.
CompUSA RTV's the drive to Seagate
Seagate checks the drive and finds the magnetic platters are ok, but the drive bios is fouled up. Seagate removes the magnetic platters puts them in a new housing with a new bios. Formats the drive, seals it, resells it.
Customer #2 (you!) buys the drive. Then does an undelete on it. Finds Customer #1's porn.
The solution: Check and see if you can find any personal information on the guy, and if you can give him a call and discuss his taste in porn with his wife.
Morcalivan
20 years ago
Is it good porn?
Did you at least get your own stuff back along with other dude's garbage?
Did you at least get your own stuff back along with other dude's garbage?
Morcalivan
20 years ago
Is it good porn?
Did you at least get your own stuff back along with other dude's garbage?
Did you at least get your own stuff back along with other dude's garbage?