friend is givin her pc away to my friend

cozza

One of my friends has got a newer and faster pc
Insted of given it to anybody she is given it to my other friend so her kids can have another pc,
Does she have to de register her old one before she gives it to my friends kids?
She has wiped it clean all stuff of ove it .
does she have to set it back to factory settings like when it was new ?
and do we with the old one just put the windows disc to boot it up and will we have to re register the disc when we load it up ? As i am not sure i can do most things put not sure on this
so some advice will be grateful thank you

DCFC79

Id do a reinstallation of xp

cozza

thank you . so we dont have to re register when we do this ?

DCFC79

cozza wrote: »

thank you . so we dont have to re register when we do this ?

do you mean when it asks for name and address(i think its optional when you do this) in which case just do a reinstallation of xp using the discs, when it asks for name etc dont enter anything in the boxes

gaming_guy

providing you have an XP installation disk, i'd run dban on the machine overnight (to wipe the HDD clean) and reinstall XP along with all the latest MS updates before giving a computer away.

cozza

thanks DCFC79 yes i have got that now thank you
gaming_guy how do you do that ? will we find it in start menu ? or were do we find that thank you

DCFC79

cozza wrote: »

thanks DCFC79 yes i have got that now thank you
gaming_guy how do you do that ? will we find it in start menu ? or were do we find that thank you

for dban you will have to download it then follow what gaming guy said

cozza

thank you for your replys DCFC79 and gamin _guy very gratfull for your help

Mr_Oink

I have to giggle that people are still running DBAN on new drives and watching day(s) go by. A single complete overwrite of a disc with any pattern will render it beyond reasonable recovery. EG to recover a single 36k jpeg with an atomic force microscope would take about 3 months.

Most modern (post 2001) drives have an ATA command called 'secure erase' built it, which you can fire off from boot. It will overwrite everything to DoD standards. A 40g drive takes about 15 minutes, a 500g around 2 & a half hours.

I'm not allowed to post links, but google CMMR + Gordon Hughes and you'll find the utility that will fire it off there.

Not to scare you or anything, but make sure you wipe that drive off properly. People give me old PC's all the time 'because I can make use of them' and I'm easily able to recover things they had long forgotton about.