Format without Cd

[mehuk]

Wondering if i could get some advice.

Going to sell a acer one netbook as the mrs don't use it anymore she uses her ipad2

Anyway obviously before selling the best thing to do would be to format the drive to remove details etc now the problem we have is that didn't come with the xp cd and I assume you had to run the backup function to get that... We didn't.

So basically is there a way to wipe the drive so that it would still be usable after sale for someone to install their own copy of windows on there?

I don't need windows on there personally just want data wiped so we can sell it.

Cheers

 

[mehuk]

So will DBan wipe everything and leave the HDD blank, for then someone who purchases to install whatever OS they like?

I dont want to sell the netbook with an OS installed, but would like the HDD in a state that they can do it themselves.

It might be less sellable, but I mean ill probably only look for 80-100 tops anyway for it.

 

[mehuk]

Yep, DBan will wipe it completely, leaving it blank for them to install whatever OS they like.

Ok thanks for that, sounds ideal