If you where selling your laptop

bigfoot125

would you restore the machine to factory settings given that the machine is running fine and i can save my pics etc to cd.

will probably sell on ebay so i guess i would need to wipe off passwords etc

by the way the lappie is sony vaio so no recovery disks to hand

appreciate comments if poss

cheers

albertross_2

If you had the XP disk available, I would run dban on it, then reinstall windows.

But, as you don't, the safest thing to do is to restore to factory state, and then wipe free space with eraser, sdelete or similar, and then defrag.

bigfoot125

looking through the recovery ultility and loading cdr's in to the drive it says does not recognise

i am confused

Asus_Mobo

bigfoot125 wrote: »

looking through the recovery ultility and loading cdr's in to the drive it says does not recognise

i am confused

Whats the make and model of laptop?

bigfoot125

Sony Vaio Fs515h


Hth

Asus_Mobo

Any help? http://www.vaio-link.com/tutorials/recovery/recovery.asp?l=en&m=1400