In that case I'd either have the hard drive degaussed (if you know of someone with the equipment to do it) or take a hammer to the hard drive and donating that, and the rest of the carcass, to Goodwill or some other organization with an electronics recycling program.Įdited by britechguy, 23 July 2017 - 02:39 PM.A factory reset can be the solution to many problems in Windows 10/8/7. No one should go to the amount of work it takes to do a purge on a system no one wants. That's the main reason I suggested picking up the phone. There are very good reasons why organizations do not want to accept the risks associated with machines, even cleaned to perfection, that sport an unsupported OS. Unbelievable.Ī perfectly working PC with an unsupported and now notoriously known as security Swiss cheese operating system isn't operating "perfectly" even if it operates exactly like it did when it came out of the box.
A perfectly working PC not being wanted by anybody. It ultimately went to the local orphanage, which took it for spares. It took me a month to donate my Windows XP computer some time ago. First link.īefore you go to all this effort, have you checked with the school in question that they will even accept the computer? If you are up to it you could reinstall XP using the iso in this post. I am not sure if the Samsung allows a factory reset. This would essentially wipe the drive and set it back to date of first purchase. The Dell allows a factory reset, if the recovery partition is intact, by pressing Ctrl + F11 at boot then releasing both keys.
Be sure to select Free Space and not Disk Also check Wipe Data Streams, Cluster Tips, and MFT. The dropdown box will give you the 3 pass option. Erasing method is under options > settings. Use CCleaner to wipe the free space of the hard drive with a 3 pass wipe. Use TFC and CCleaner to delete any additional temp files.ĭelete the Page File and disable System Restore. The only sure way is to do a factory reset.Ĭreate a new admin account with no password then login and delete all other user accounts in Control Panel. Some settings could still reside in the Administrator's registry account.
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