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Installing windows 7 after wiping hard drive?
Hey,
So basically I'm selling my laptop, and obviously I want to get rid of all my data/make sure it cannot be recovered again. Now I'm a complete newbie but I'm not really sure as to what's the best method to go about doing this.
I was thinking of running DBan to overwrite the hard drive and then reinstall windows 7. But I don't have a windows 7 installation disk. I only have some recovery CD's that PCWorld made for me when I first got my laptop which I think is just a system image so I don't know if I'd be able to use it to reinstall windows 7?
My other option I was thinking of was to just replace the hard drive altogether but again that leads to the question that will my recovery/system images work on the new hard drive?
Thanks :)
Last edited by newbiegirl; 01 Dec 2014 at 18:01.