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When reselling a windows pc, is the native wipe and reinstall

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When reselling a windows pc, is the native wipe and reinstall of the OS sufficiently secure enough? Or do I need to use some sort of third party software?

Doing this for a family member. Loonix and macOS user here so I'm clueless.
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>>61825757
DBAN is free and it works.
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secure enough in what way? you might want to check and delete any system restore points as well

if you're paranoid you would want to use DBAN to 0-pass it or whatever, this can take a couple hours though
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Use DBAN. Run the DoD short and you should be good to go.
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thanks /g/ents, I'll go the DBAN route. I've heard about it before, just forgot the name.
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>>61825757
from a security standpoint it is not a good idea to sell your used hard drives.
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>>61825757
bleachbit was good enough for Hillary so it might work for you
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>>61825757
i wouldn't trust the formatting windows does during install myself

use a real wiping program. try booting up a linux distro like tails with admin enabled and wiping from your disks from theres. tails is beginner-friendly, security-oriented, and has a lot of documentation
>>>/g/sqt/
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Replace the hard drive and sell it

Simplest way
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this >>61826139
It's very easy to recover data from a windows format.
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>>61826599
why not just zero it with mhdd or something
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