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Is it safe to sell broken laptop on Ebay

livelyred
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Hi i have a broken laptop which was my daughters only had 2 yrs , the screen comes on but nothing there. Well i have now brought a new one as i got told it would costquite abit to repair, well i have got the harddrive left inside so is it safe to sell this on ebay i cant get nothing off the laptop stuff which my daughter downloaded etc ?
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  • [Deleted User]
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    Hi,

    would think it will be ok, as long as you say it is broken and give a good description of the faults, if not worth fixing, could sell for spares.

    Plenty for sale, look.
  • livelyred
    livelyred Posts: 2,367 Forumite
    Yes they probably could fix it im just worried about whats on the hard drive ?
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  • bat999
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    livelyred wrote: »
    im just worried about whats on the hard drive ?

    Sell it without the hard drive.
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  • tweeter
    tweeter Posts: 3,958 Forumite
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    edited 6 November 2010 at 12:39PM
    Removing or replacing harddrive.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U23F8JuKKE

    HTH
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  • fiddiwebb
    fiddiwebb Posts: 1,806 Forumite
    edited 6 November 2010 at 12:21PM
    livelyred wrote: »
    Hi i have a broken laptop which was my daughters only had 2 yrs , the screen comes on but nothing there. Well i have now brought a new one as i got told it would costquite abit to repair, well i have got the harddrive left inside so is it safe to sell this on ebay i cant get nothing off the laptop stuff which my daughter downloaded etc ?

    What do you mean by there is nothing there on the screen?

    Is the screen broken or is the laptop not starting or it is running but not loading windows?

    It may be fixable depending what is wrong with it.
  • Hammyman
    Hammyman Posts: 9,913 Forumite
    If its a laptop with a SATA hard drive, they share the same interface as the desktop PCs. You could put it in your desktop computer temporarily and wipe it with one of the many free apps on the interwibble.
  • livelyred
    livelyred Posts: 2,367 Forumite
    tweeter wrote: »
    Removing or replacing harddrive.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U23F8JuKKE

    HTH
    Is the harddrive what looks like a green board with lots off solerding on ?
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  • livelyred
    livelyred Posts: 2,367 Forumite
    tweeter wrote: »
    Removing or replacing harddrive.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U23F8JuKKE

    HTH
    I have taken the harddrive out its the one with the piece off ribbon attached in a silver flatish box ? Do i just take all that out or do i have to do something else ?
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  • bigup
    bigup Posts: 358 Forumite
    edited 6 November 2010 at 1:06PM
    The hard drive is very easy to remove from a laptop. theres a small screw under the machine, with an obvious removeable little plate. Once you pop that off you just simply pull out the drive and remove the little clip which is attached to it. Thats it.

    But from the sounds of it, if the laptop is turning on, then your machine sounds fine and would probably be very easy to sort out. Could just require a reinstallation of the operating system to fix it.
  • bigup
    bigup Posts: 358 Forumite
    "Is the harddrive what looks like a green board with lots off solerding on ?"


    No, thats not the hard drive. Thats the motherboard
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