Selling Computer?

Question

I am planning on selling my laptop computer for a new one. It is two years old, and I would like to restore everything to its original "out of the box" settings how do i go about doing this?

Answer 1

You need to do more than just restore (putting in original windows CD). You need to erase and wipe all information from your harddrive, I reccommend you use Active@ KillDisk. This powerful and compact DOS software allows you to destroy all data on hard and floppy drives completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders. This is security software for unrecoverable data elimination for any computer capable of booting in DOS mode from floppy drive. It uses access to the drive's data on a physical level via BIOS bypassing logical drive structure organization, thus it does not matter operating systems and file systems located on the machine, it can be DOS, Windows 95 / 98, Windows NT / 2000 / XP, Linux, Unix for PC. Active@ KillDisk conforms to US Department of Defense clearing and sanitizing standard DoD 5220.22-M. You can be sure that once you clean up with Active@ KillDisk, sensitive information is purged out forever. We highly recommend you to run this FREE utility for the hard and floppy drives you want to dispose of, recycle, re-use, sell or donate to somebody.

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Answer 2

Sell it on e-bay! People will buy anything off of there. Get a restore disk from pc manufacterer. If you pc is made by a small shop, then format everything and install the OS from scratch.

Answer 3

Put the original restore CD in that came with the computer and follow the instructions.
I know someone looking for a laptop used. What are you asking? What does it have?

Answer 4

I know this isn't an answer to your question, but when you go to sell your laptop PLEASE be very careful.

When I have sold laptops in the past, it seems to bring out every scam artist in the world. They asked if I would take travelers checks or personal checks (bad idea), ship it immediately to foriegn countries (really bad idea), etc.

I suggest you only take cash for a local sale or a non-revokable funds transfer for a sale requiring shipment.

Answer 5

you may get your guidance nonetheless. It has not been erased. you may do away with the confusing stress, or have somebody do away with it for you. you may hook it into yet another computer and nonetheless get entry to your guidance and burn all of it to backup memory. Or, you may basically purchase a sparkling motherboard. and then your computer might nonetheless artwork. IF I knew the kind # and make of your computer i could desire to probably discover you a motherboard for basically $eighty.