My wife's Acer laptop blew its mainboard a year & a month from new. We had a new mainboard fitted & this one blew after 51 weeks, but the repair was only guaranteed 3 months so we decided it wasn't worth bothering this time. The previous repairers have offered to buy it. How much is it worth & is there any risk of our banking details being picked up from it if scavenged?
2007-05-28 02:36:10 · 0 answers · asked by dzerjb 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
I think your banking details will be pretty safe, banks usually secure the data they send to you. (unless you saved the data to a document on your pc) however a lot of other data, that could be interesting to others is stored on your pc, the best way to keep that safe is to remove the harddisk from your laptop and connect it to a pc or other laptop and delete all data stored on it.
(you could overwrite all data with "junk" files to make it imposible to recover it, you can find
2007-05-28 02:41:54 · answer #1 · answered by Preykill 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, your data can be scavenged if someone wanted it
ok. Here is what you do
Go to a computer store and pick up a 2.5 inch USB drive enclosure for about $20. Pull the hard drive from your laptop and put it in the USB enclosure and now you have full access to the hard drive that was in your laptop from any computer. Move the data to your new computer........
THEN go to http://www.whitecanyon.com/wipedrive-erase-hard-drive.php
and download this software which will wipe that drive to Department of Defense specifications---that means NO ONE will be able to access what WAS on the drive
Once the drive is DoD wiped, you can then format it and continue to use the drive as an external disk drive which will allow you to take your data with you and use in any computer.
Then put the laptop, minus the hard drive on Ebay as a non-working system. People are always looking for LCD screens and other parts which may be cannibalized from your dead laptop system.....put it on ebay for $10
2007-05-28 02:51:53 · answer #2 · answered by Jeffrey F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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My wife's Acer laptop blew its mainboard a year & a month from new. We had a new mainboard fitted & this one blew after 51 weeks, but the repair was only guaranteed 3 months so we decided it wasn't worth bothering this time. The previous repairers have offered to buy it. How much is it...
2015-08-18 11:19:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just remove the hard drive before you sell it to them. It may bring the selling price down a little, but not so much as loosing your personal data.
A lot goes into determining the value of a note book, such as the RAM, CPU, screen, etc. If all these are good then no less than $50 and go up from there depending on the specs.
2007-05-28 02:43:49 · answer #4 · answered by JMKyler3 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
take out the hard drive and keep it or destroy the platter so much no 1 can get it bac 2 gether. If u r rly worried about ppl getting data off of it use Darik's Boot And Nuke. It writes over the platter 7 times.
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2007-05-28 02:42:44 · answer #5 · answered by Jake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you should only need to worry about the harddrive. that's where data is kept in. your best chance would be to somehow COMPLETE FORMAT the hard drive before giving it to him but i dunno how that may be possible. you may want to ask for local help on that.
as for the price you have to deal with him. don't expect too much since laptop parts are not modular (unlike PC).
2007-05-28 02:46:53 · answer #6 · answered by farzad k 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u dont know how to use laptop
2007-05-28 02:43:25 · answer #7 · answered by drivingbolero24 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋