Win10 reset fail – prepping to sell, what is easiest way to remove personal info

Win10 reset fail – prepping to sell, what is easiest way to remove personal info

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  • February 6, 2017 at 5:59 am #61683
    Mickeyaaaa
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    Update, managed to make another “admin” user, then log out and delete my personal account….wow microsoft really makes it difficult to sign in without any personal data, but its possible. deleted everything personal i could find…i know if some egghead went into the drive with an undelete program he could probably find some personal stuff but i’m not too worried.

     

     

    February 6, 2017 at 1:45 pm #61708
    Chris Clayton
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    When you say ‘deleted’ do you mean standard deletion, or a security wipe (‘destroy’, ‘bleach’, ‘make unrecoverable’.) This makes data (almost) impossible to recover by repeatedly (up to 7 or 9 times) saving data (such as zeros) to the ‘apparently’ empty space on a drive. Online there are many free tools which include this option, such as CCleaner, BleachBit, Wise Disk Care and more.

    February 11, 2017 at 11:28 pm #62047
    Hans Sprungfeld
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    Just format and recover to default image via the Intel tools…

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