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How do I prep a laptop for sale?

I've got a laptop with a broken screen, not worth repairing. Figure I should wipe it clean, but it never came with a windows 7 disk, so not sure how I would go about a clean install. I considered manually uninstalling and deleting, then writing zeros to the hard drive, but manually uninstalling everything through the windows utility would take ages.

Any tips...?

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  • DR Tech
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    First make sure if you have a "Recovery Disk" or a Recovery Drive

    Check the manual.

    Once you confirmed one or the other go to

    http://www.dban.org/

    Do a 2 Pass and leave it on over night. Only reformat the Drive u use. DO NOT deleve recovery drive by accident. [If u have recovery drive]

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