massive damage caused by computer purchased from dionwired

<p>after buying a new laptop from diowired , i plugged my hard drive external-100 percent health according to hard drive sentinelhard drive monitoring program-which monitors thehard drive health in real time</p> <p> </p> <p>i plugged the hard drive concerned into the barely used laptop recently acquired from dionwired</p> <p> </p> <p>the computer needed to be reset as it was</p> <p>somewhat sluggish, as it had been running</p> <p>for a while</p> <p> </p> <p>i then pressed the button to safely remove</p> <p>my external hard drive from the computer.</p> <p> </p> <p>when the computer indicated that the</p> <p>drive was safe to remove, i removed it, but it appears</p> <p>that the antivirus on the computer</p> <p>(mcafee antivirus) had initiated a scan of the</p> <p>external hard disk without giving any</p> <p>indication, and without asking me for permission</p> <p> so i had absolutely no</p> <p>way of knowing that the drive was being</p> <p>accessed, and therefore not to be removed</p> <p>at that point in time</p> <p> </p> <p>the computer should also have told me that the drivewas not safe to remove, as it was technically still being accessed by the</p> <p>mcafee antivirus, </p> <p> </p> <p>after rebooting the computer, i reattached</p> <p>the hard drive and there was no content</p> <p>showing on the drive other than that the</p> <p>drive was showing up on windows, when i</p> <p>tried to access the drive content, it</p> <p>indicated repeatedly the the data on the</p> <p>drive had been *******ed. </p> <p> </p> <p>the drive then intermittently stopped showing up on windows </p> <p>unfortunately these results were replicated on another</p> <p>computer</p> <p> i have been quoted 15000 to recover the data and replace the drive, and this is unlikely to be completely successful</p> <p>i have lost tens of thousands of rands worth of data, and i expect dionwired to compensate me</p>