How to secure laptop that going in for repair

mattyg

mattyg

mattyg

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My expensive Lenovo Legion i9 has a screen fault and is being sent away for repair.
Is best practice to remove both M.2's and send in bare or leave a spare M.2 in there with a copy of windows on it.

Theres nothing nefarious on it but it is my work laptop
 
I'd presume for a work machine it will have full disk encryption aka bitlocker?
 
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Zefan said:
I'd presume for a work machine it will have full disk encryption aka bitlocker?
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Nah.

Its my laptop that I use for work... My company.

Never thought about bitlocker. Which is odd as I'm getting more and more paranoid about all the Outages with the recent hacking of everything

Would bitlocker be the easiest solution, Without slowing the laptop down
 
Dunno about Lenovo but not been uncommon with some other brands to just wipe laptops and just send them out refurbished (or "refurbished") not necessarily back to the same customer who sent it in - one of the reasons I will never touch Asus these days.
 
Rroff said:
Dunno about Lenovo but not been uncommon with some other brands to just wipe laptops and just send them out refurbished (or "refurbished") not necessarily back to the same customer who sent it in - one of the reasons I will never touch Asus these days.
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Yeah, I've heard the same. Not sure if lenovo do, I'd be pretty miffed as it was a £4500 laptop.

I'll probably not risk it and replace the drives and leave them with a bare windows install
 
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