> > 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.