want to wipe recovery to sell laptop but after facotry reset it still didnt wipe how do i wipe it.

[billy_r1]

i cant wipe my recovery on my laptop I want to sell it how do I do it.

[doughjohn]

Hi

Something like BleachBit or Darens Boot and Nuke may help.

[billy_r1]

what are they?

[billy_r1]

also it doesn't wipe windows does it? just files that are in the recovery hard drive?

[doughjohn]

Hi

I find my search engine DuckDuckGo helps me find the explanation of these kind of things.

However the recovery partition is probably the most valuable partition on there, both in terms of money and peace of mind.

Without it the laptop is worth very little.

[PeerOne]

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@billy_r1 wrote:

i cant wipe my recovery on my laptop I want to sell it how do I do it.

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Why don't you spend a little to buy the HP REcovery disk and use that to wipe it clean to Factory install so whom you sell it to can use it. Otherwise without a Validated O/S no one will buy your computer if they expect it to work or verify what they buy works. That way they have the Recovery disk and a working computer so they can't say it wasn't working when they bought it.

[billy_r1]

if i was to leave the recovery on there it would be safe and there isnt any of my personal files on their?

[doughjohn · Accepted solution]

Hi

There are none of your personal files on the recovery partition, because any change to the recovery areas negates them immediately.

If you have done factory fresh install (recovery re-install) the only things that could be on there of yours is the login name and password if you created one.  Assuming you haven't logged in and used the internet etc.

So has that re-assured you?