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.
>>61825757
DBAN is free and it works.
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
Use DBAN. Run the DoD short and you should be good to go.
thanks /g/ents, I'll go the DBAN route. I've heard about it before, just forgot the name.
>>61825757
from a security standpoint it is not a good idea to sell your used hard drives.
>>61825757
bleachbit was good enough for Hillary so it might work for you
>>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/
Replace the hard drive and sell it
Simplest way
this >>61826139
It's very easy to recover data from a windows format.
>>61826599
why not just zero it with mhdd or something