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I'm going to sell my computer, is a factory reset safe enough or is there something else i should do?
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Factory reset when selling laptop
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Secure erase the drive, then do a bog standard installation of Windows 10/11 Home. This should be enough to wipe your data and prove that the machine works.
The downside is that if the computer has a hard drive, the secure erase will take a few hours or more, depending on how many passes you run.
The downside is that if the computer has a hard drive, the secure erase will take a few hours or more, depending on how many passes you run.
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If I was selling a computer I think I'd keep the hard drive they are about the cheapest thing in the computer
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This
However if you are not replacing the drive, just use diskpart via cmd to write zeros to the drive. 1 pass is all you need.