I've got quite a story for ya guys. My sis is in a legal battle over custody of her child with her boyfriend who has more computer experience than most people at Geek Squad put together. Her boyfriend came over to see his child and while he was here he hacked into our IP adress and screwed somthing up. He then (this is my theory, might not be true) planted a bug into her computer that made her harddrive crash and then took the computer to fix it for my sis. When he did, he did a file transfer from the "bad" harddrive to a new one that he would put in her compuer. When ever he did this everything came back except for the files that contained bills, insurence numbers, social security numbers, pretty much stuff you don't want a legal enemy to have. My question is, is there a way to check to see if the harddrive, that is the "new" one, is actually new, or just the old one that he wiped all the stuff he didn't want us to have?

P.S., Her boyfriend is an

Wow, that's quite a story. The answer is technically yes, you could know if you knew the serial number of the HD before all of this happened. Or if you ran some benchmark software and saved the results, this information should be in the benchmark results. You could also ask him for the old drive back, though he might just say that he threw it away or something like that.

That's quite a disturbing story--hopefully all turns out alright. Your sister should call all of the places that might have compromised personal information and request new cards/numbers and whatnot. I don't really know what can be done about her SSN though.

My opinion of this guy isn't all that high--the Geek Squad is pretty useless in my opinion

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Well, don't most hard drives have a Manufactured Date on them, so you could check to see if the Date is recent, or from awhile ago. If it's a year that's before 2006, it's probably not a new hard drive. Kinda strange, but none of my business, so I won't get into it.

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thanx for the story. its people like that that save me money on tv (i dont need it when i read these stories) anyways good luck. (by the way if you want someone to get at him let me know. (ill get some of his info for ya if you want me to)

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