Im Buying A New Laptop Will I Lose My Email Address And Facebook

Malmo

bluelass wrote: »

Im not thick. I have bought a clearing disc from a trusted PC shop. This will completely delete any browsing history and bank and card details from the hard drive, it cost £11 which is much cheaper than getting a IT tech to do a manual hard drive wipe.

You did not need to buy anything as a free utility called DBan does the job, followed by re-installing the Operating System (OS).
Refer to this Reddit thread, which explains the method.

macman

Why would you need an IT tech to do a manual hard drive wipe? You can do that yourself for nothing. But you don't want to to wipe the hard drive manually, because that will remove the OS and reduce it's sale value-just do a normal Factory Restore.
Your 'clearing disk' is probably nothing more than a couple of freely downloadable utilities copied to CD. And removing your browser history and cookies is done from the browser menu, no need for 3rd party tools.

poppy10_2

Malmo wrote: »

You did not need to buy anything as a free utility called DBan does the job, followed by re-installing the Operating System (OS).

Dude, this lass doesn't even know if she will lose her facebook account if she uses another computer - do you really expect her to be tech-geeky enough to use DBAN?

Supatramp

Does nobody think that the date that this was posted might be relevant???

Le_Kirk

Supatramp wrote: »

Does nobody think that the date that this was posted might be relevant???

Good idea but it doesn't work as it was after 12.00 mid-day!!