Pawning Computer

orionmoo

If you do sell your pc make sure to wipe your drive first! And I mean wipe, not just format. If you have a second pc its easy to do just hook the drive up and use the program Eraser. If you dont then a bit trickier, but download ubuntu onto a cd, boot the pc from the ubuntu cd and use dd to overwrite /dev/sda at the terminal

TrustyOven

orionmoo wrote: »

If you dont then a bit trickier, but download ubuntu onto a cd, boot the pc from the ubuntu cd and use dd to overwrite /dev/sda at the terminal

You'd want something like:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=4M

to write a bunch of zeroes to ALL of the drive, in 4MB chunks. You'll probably want to add "sudo" just before the "dd" if you are using Ubuntu.

If you have more hard drives / SSDs, you'd want to repeat the process for sdb, sdc, sdd etc..
Be prepared to wait a while though. Doing this command can take a long time depending on size of the drive. It could take 5+ hours on larger drives.

cinderfella

Being an old guy I think along old fashioned lines, so please excuse my line of thought.
(A) Do you need a car ?
(B) You can pick up a decent Reliant 4 wheeler (as opposed to the older 3 wheeler) on Ebay for about £650.
(C) We all have 'our thing', & you obviously like computer gaming. Try to keep your computer & just work on the car problem.

I was brought up with Victorian standards (which date my thinking) but those standards have always worked for me.
Hope you sort out your problem.

poipo

lol don't even look at a new car..
get a 2003-2005 Honda jazz , which will be super cheap on insurance, great mpg even if petrol,loads of space and probably the most reliable car there is! and they go for right around 1k

counting_stars_2

Hi I realise this is a old post but feel need to respond. I took up the deal with peugeot two years ago and it was the worst thing I ever did. I had recently divorced and had no idea about buying new cars etc and I have definitely paid the price about £6000 ! The salesman did not tell me about the excess mileage charge asked me how many miles I did I had no clue he then suggested around 5000 per year I agreed I have since learnt that the most I could have put was 6000 doesnt seem much of a difference but it is in effect and I now find myself in the situation where I have gone over the mileage and will have to pay them more money. My car insurance wasnt included and also I have found that I have signed to take out a kind of ppa loan of 500 pounds on top of my own insurance. I have written complained phone dealership but go nowhere and also beware they tell you servicing included but it is only included for the first 2 years of the contract. This may be all to late for you but hopefully someone will read and not do I am going to return the car in August by then I will have had if for 18months and I will have paid 6000 plus I will owe them my excess mileage 5p per extra mile, I realise it was my foolishness going on my own not having a clue about anything but really it is not worth it.

DCFC79

counting_stars wrote: »

Hi I realise this is a old post but feel need to respond. I took up the deal with peugeot two years ago and it was the worst thing I ever did. I had recently divorced and had no idea about buying new cars etc and I have definitely paid the price about £6000 ! The salesman did not tell me about the excess mileage charge asked me how many miles I did I had no clue he then suggested around 5000 per year I agreed I have since learnt that the most I could have put was 6000 doesnt seem much of a difference but it is in effect and I now find myself in the situation where I have gone over the mileage and will have to pay them more money. My car insurance wasnt included and also I have found that I have signed to take out a kind of ppa loan of 500 pounds on top of my own insurance. I have written complained phone dealership but go nowhere and also beware they tell you servicing included but it is only included for the first 2 years of the contract. This may be all to late for you but hopefully someone will read and not do I am going to return the car in August by then I will have had if for 18months and I will have paid 6000 plus I will owe them my excess mileage 5p per extra mile, I realise it was my foolishness going on my own not having a clue about anything but really it is not worth it.

Nothing wrong with going on your own as long as you read the terms and understand whats involved.

The OP decided against the original plan.

WillyWonga

Let this be a case example of what can go wrong with a car deal.

These deals the dealerships offer look attractive - and 5k miles sounds a lot a year but think about it in monthly terms is around 96 miles a week. If your commute is a 20 mile round trip then that is your lot, no weekend travel, no holiday travel etc.

Go for a minimum of 10k miles.

Gaz83

I'd be interested to know if there are any statistics on the average commute in Britain. I'd be willing to bet it's at least 15 miles there and back, which leaves 5 miles a day for social use.

My commute is an 18-mile round trip, thankfully in the nicer weather I'm able to cycle most days.

gycraig_2

Sell your car buy a cheap runaround and save the 160 quid a month for a new car ?