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Selling computer with ms software?

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  • GunJack
    GunJack Posts: 11,909 Forumite
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    ^^^^^^^^^^ probably, as someone will have a spare COA floating around to put on it.
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  • paddyrg
    paddyrg Posts: 13,543 Forumite
    Fuzzgun, how about you install Linux Mint? Free, and similar enough for windows users to get going pretty quickly, or they could remove it if they had a legit Windows they wanted to install...
  • swifthorn
    swifthorn Posts: 149 Forumite
    I would never sell on a computer with my old harddrive in even if it was formatted. It doesn't completely remove all the files. Those programs claiming to remove all your files are lying too. The only way to remove files and destroying the HHD is to use bleach. Although you'd be safer to just buy a new one for it, and use the old one as a slave driver or external drive for your current pc.
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