Submission + - What to do about previous user's data
SJrX writes: I sent my netbook in for servicing as my hard disk was dying and it was still under warranty. The 'new' hard disk, wouldn't boot the first few times and made sounds no hard drive should, however after that it booted fine. I noticed a curious discovery while installing Ubuntu on it, that the other partition, had about 26 G of data on it. I had been blessed with the first two seasons of Star Trek Enterprise among other things, clearly from the previous owner, nothing inheriently sensitive. Now thankfully I wiped my data before sending it in, but I'm not sure what the best way to bring this up with them is? The hard drive will probably go back for RMA since it's broken, but beyond that, I suspect mentioning it to the Level 1 staff, will simply be a noop? The other question is, how often does this really occur? I could understand perhaps a full disk scan may find something, but the partition (which is standard on these models) hadn't even been quick formatted. I guess the data here isn't sensitive, but I don't think they really checked that before giving it to me.
