No I cant give you your hard drive back.

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

You brought your machine in for a warranty repair. The company that makes your machine sent me a new drive under warranty. Now, under that warranty, I have to send your old drive back to them within X numbers of days, or I get charged an insane sum of money. No, there is no way for me to get around this. No, I cannot just send them back some random hard drive. Sorry.

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[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

Sure there is. They can pay the insane fee you'd be charged and they can keep their old hard drive. No problem! :)

[random-c.livejournal.com]

why no, you cannot keep that kiddy porn!

[antikythera.livejournal.com]

I was going to say... ten bucks says there's kiddy porn on it.

[jjjiii]

That does kindof suck, though, if you're worried about what happens to your data after the drive is no longer in your hands. Sometimes the value of the confidentiality of the data is greater than the value of the warranty replacement.

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

I've had a number of customers just pay the non-return fee just because they didn't want to give us their old drive. I assured them that we destroy the old drives.
... yeah. Why dod I suspect some of these people are doing illegal things? Well, besides the fact that other agents in my center have had people call them asking for help automating a meth lab.

[ladynisa.livejournal.com]

"had people call them asking for help automating a meth lab"


... srsly, on drug addicts could really think taht would work.

O.o

[blkrabbitofinle.livejournal.com]

I assure you that people who've never touched an illicit substance, let alone become addicted, still display equally thoughtless behaviour - just, obviously, not in relation to something that involves making drugs. At least addicts have the excuse of messed up brain chemistry.

[ravenshrinkery.livejournal.com]

DVD copy lab, yeah I could see automating that (my helldesk did that in the training lab). But I think you need some level of robotics to automate any chemical processing, regardless of legality.

[deaddoloreshaze.livejournal.com]

i love your icon

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

My wife made it into an afgan for me:

http://members.arstechnica.com/x/hellion_prime/evilinside_afgan_600.jpg

She SWEARS she will never make another. It was very complicated.

[cjkline83.livejournal.com]

I would have just ghosted it and put it on another hard drive and given them that and made them pay for the cost of the copied drive.

[laptop-mechanic.livejournal.com]

Drive was totally dead. Nobody short of a pro data recovery place with a clean room was gonna get anything off of it.

[blkrabbitofinle.livejournal.com]

Was the customer aware it was fully dead? I would imagine so, which makes me less inclined to think they had something illegal on it and more inclined to think they had something important on it - work documents, school papers, whatever - and didn't think to actually back them up.