on 2011-11-10 20:34 Paul Stenquist wrote
I wouldn't send the drive off. I'd copy it off to a new one. Then I'd just reformat the bad drive and send it off.
if one were paranoid, one would do at least a single-pass erasure of the drive contents, not just reformat it; erasure options are fairly obvious in Disk Utility on a Mac, not sure about Windows; it's rather easy to recover the contents of a drive that's had a basic reformat
as to the paranoia question, first, WD probably has this work done by a third party with little oversight; the "repair" could actually be a replacement with a new drive; if so your old drive will sit somewhere afterward, possibly to be "refurbished" for someone else; if so i'd expect it to be wiped at that point, but in the interim some schmuck might be rummaging around; fairly small chance, but a chance; and what kind of schmuck might that be? most likely someone looking for porn or credit card info, very unlikely to be someone intrepid enough to hawk your photos to Getty ... so given what you've said is on the drive, i would send it in
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