New box + reformatting hdb1

> > If the hard drives were already formatted when you got them, then they were not
> > new/unopened. I've seen Fry's sell "new" drives that already had partitions and
> > files on them. No new hard drive should have any partitions or formatting.
>
> We bought a box of hard drives, still in the anti-static bags and
> in the foam box. Every one of them had Windows 98 on it ready to
> click Accept to the EULA. This was at PC Club in L.A.
>
> If you buy the retail packaged hard drive, you are right. I received
> a Virus from one of those "new" drives - but then, almost everyone
> has heard that story from me before.

Having seen what the PC Clubs near me are carrying I wonder if those drives were
made for an OEM that didn't need them so they got sold to PC Club like that.