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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1829466" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Patrick, I suspect the language came from the legal department. I would venture a guess that some dolt bought a WD drive, put data on it, then later partitioned it and lost all his data and instead of saying internally, "Wow, that was dumb. I won't do that again," went out a got a lawyer to sue WD because they didn't warn the dolt that mucking about with things you don't know anything about is dangerous. </p><p></p><p>You can't cure stupid. But you can laugh at it. The assinine thing about the warning is that EVERY drive has a partition table, as you say, so any drive could have a fault in the partition table and lost data as a result. </p><p></p><p>That warning is about the equivalent of an auto maker recommending that you not put gasoline in your car because that might result in a fire. <img src="/images/smilies/rofl.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":rofl" title="ROFL :rofl" data-shortname=":rofl" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1829466, member: 396914"] Patrick, I suspect the language came from the legal department. I would venture a guess that some dolt bought a WD drive, put data on it, then later partitioned it and lost all his data and instead of saying internally, "Wow, that was dumb. I won't do that again," went out a got a lawyer to sue WD because they didn't warn the dolt that mucking about with things you don't know anything about is dangerous. You can't cure stupid. But you can laugh at it. The assinine thing about the warning is that EVERY drive has a partition table, as you say, so any drive could have a fault in the partition table and lost data as a result. That warning is about the equivalent of an auto maker recommending that you not put gasoline in your car because that might result in a fire. :rofl [/QUOTE]
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