any point to freecycling this laptop?

lynnemcf

I have a Toshiba satellite 4060, pentium pII 366 with 64 meg RAM 4.3 gig hard drive. I got it from a mate years ago and it was fabby for college work. Unfortunately i cannot work out how to system restore (pressing F8 does nowt). Screen still looks very nice. Is it of any use to anyone?

motorguy

lynnemcf wrote: »

I have a Toshiba satellite 4060, pentium pII 366 with 64 meg RAM 4.3 gig hard drive. I got it from a mate years ago and it was fabby for college work. Unfortunately i cannot work out how to system restore (pressing F8 does nowt). Screen still looks very nice. Is it of any use to anyone?

For the sake of two mins, why not stick it on and see? It would probably have taken you no longer than it did to start this thread...

I'd say you'll find a home for it no probs.

macman

I think you are confusing System Restore with a Factory Restore?
Sys Restore is accessed from the Start Menu.

JasX

given the age it probably harks back to the days of restore CDs rather than partitions.... does it have alot of personal data belonging to your friend scattered around the hard disk?

lynnemcf

Sorry, I didnt explain myself in the first posting ... I would only freecycle if I could delete permanently all of the data on the hard drive ... but I dont know how to do that

bryanb

Take out the hard drive and hit it with a large hammer (the drive), then freecycle it - Spares or repair.

It's amazing the way they recover info in India.

fwor

Smashing the hard disk means that it will probably be no use to anyone - who could justify buying a new (or even secondhand) drive for something that old?

Does it have a CD or floppy drive? If so, download DBAN:

http://www.dban.org/download

save it as either a bootable floppy or CD, boot up from that, wipe the hard drive (to military standard if you're feeling paranoid) and you're done - ready to Freecycle it with no operating system installed.

DBAN is free and Open Source, and is generally regarded as good enough that even the evil Indians (?) won't get your data back.

JasX

yup, factory restore isn't what you want as it leaves all your data deleted but easily recoverable, use the Dban disk, then just freecycle it as working PC, hard drive has been wiped so they'll need to reinstall the OS (CD not provided), license sticker on the back of the PC (assuming it is there, don;t post a photo of it on the internet)

poppy10_2

Try downloading DBAN (boot and nuke) - it runs from the CD, just put it in, restart your computer and let it boot from the CD, and it will securely erase all data on all the hard drives connected to the computer.

lynnemcf

Thanks ... will do that

PennyWalker

Thanks Lynnemcf - this was exactly my question too.



Have you done the download / wiping thing yet, and did it work OK?

Penny