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    Wiping a Laptops harddrive clean before selling

    I'm looking for the best way to wipe a hard drive clean before selling it on craigslist. Have had a lot of poker play, financial transactions and browsing done so i need the safest most effective way while still leaving the OS intact for the buyer. A friend suggested all i needed was dban.org but I'm not sure.
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    I should add i was never given a recovery disc because there is a recovery partition on the hard drive (D so I'm not sure how i can use DBAN
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    Step 1 - Remove Hard Drive
    Step 2 - Put Hard Drive through shredder
    Step 3 - Put in new hard drive
    Step 4 - Make new owner buy Windows

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    yeah you can get sucked into a huge back and forth about overwrites/standards or you can peel off those stickers on the hard drive and use a screwdriver to shatter the platter.

    one of those paths is absolute and removes doubt, the other involves discussions with faggots.
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    I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that if you can't figure out how to rotate a photo then you should probably just destroy the fucking hard drive

     
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    Sorry i'm a bit late to the party but to wipe a hard drive, cd, usb stick so it is unusable: put it in the microwave and nuke it.

    now you know.

     
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