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2 Laptops to sell - but I need help

To all of you tech savvy furs around here.

I have a pair of laptops that have been sitting around here like lazy bums and I want to get rid of them.

One is a Toshiba Satellite and the other is a Lenovo ThinkPad. I want to wipe them clean and factory reset them but I can't figure out how.

If someone would be so gracious as to point me in the eight direction, that'd be amazing.

Thank you guys!

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Added:	9 years, 3 months ago 19 Jan 2015 22:03 CET

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JustLurking

9 years, 3 months ago

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Edited 9 years, 3 months ago by Owner

I've always found DBan to be good. Edit: You might need a hidden factory-reset partition to restore them to factory state though. Be careful not to wipe those too, DBan is very permanent.

Shokuji

9 years, 3 months ago

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@ JustLurking

DBan may be your best option.

MaverickSkye

9 years, 3 months ago

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@ JustLurking

I wanna, but I don't wanna just up and kill it. @_@ Like, if I screw it up, sounds like game over.

JustLurking

9 years, 3 months ago

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@ MaverickSkye

Hmm, well it depends what you mean by factory-condition.

If you want it to have all the software that the laptop came with you'll need some sort of restore CD (usually you can get a copy from the manufacturer's website) and possibly some data from the hard disk.

yaegashi

9 years, 3 months ago

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http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?c...

thats from toshiba itself so it may help depending on your laptop

MaverickSkye

9 years, 3 months ago

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@ yaegashi

Thanks Wes. This worked like a charm. XP Sadly it didn't fix the track pad. I was hoping it was a driver issue, seems to be a hardware issue.

I may run it to best buy to see what's up.

yaegashi

9 years, 3 months ago

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@ MaverickSkye

anytime.

keastes

9 years, 3 months ago

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what model thinkpad? I may just buy it from you scraped clean with dban.

MaverickSkye

9 years, 3 months ago

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@ keastes

I'm not 100% on the model, I'll let you know when I get home tonight. It's nothing high end though. Really only good for work, not play.

2 gig ram I think.

MaverickSkye

9 years, 3 months ago

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@ keastes

Thinkpad edge 14. That's what it is.

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