I’m looking to sell my laptop. I’ve used stuff like DBAN before but that nukes the whole drive obviously. Is there any good way to leave the OS intact after a reset but also make sure that there’s no recoverable data?

Any ideas are appreciated. Thanks!

Edit to add: I don’t have the product key for the pre installed Windows 10 OS. Maybe there’s a way to recover that and reinstall after a full wipe?

  • Shadow@lemmy.ca
    10·
    3 months ago

    Nuke it and reinstall from scratch. If windows was hardware activated before, you shouldn’t need a key to reactivate it. It’s tied to the hardware ID.

      • ZorsithEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Been that way since I wanna say Vista? 7 for sure.