Need help here since Google doesn't yield shit and only shows results about Android phones
Selling a Laptop soon and I need to make sure that my personal data can't be recovered, and no I'm not gonna do a hard drive wipe because the seller asked to have the OS intacted
What I plan to do is
>Delete everything
>Uninstall
>Install encryption software
>Full encryption
>Factory Reset
Will this work out? Or should I just hope the seller doesn't know how to extract data from hard drive, help me out here geniuses
Wipe HDD. Reinstall windows.
>>55860415
if the encryption software overwrites unused hard disk space, yes this could work. Try to find a software that overwrite unused space.
But the best would be to wipe the whole thing, or even better, sell with a new hard drive.
>>55860415
Google dban
>>55860632
>>55860683
These would work if I had the Windows disk, and I don't feel like spending money to sell something
>>55860731
Use an official iso and make your own installation media. Microsoft provides them somewhere, or use torrents with valid hashes.