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Bosen
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Hi, I would like to sell my current computer without the hard disk. Does this make me safe? Would the buyer still be able to recover my data some how from the remaining parts? Thanks!

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1. Wipe a drive.

2. Take a magnet and run it all over the HDD.

Taking a magnet and running over that HDD will take any information away.

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Hi, I would like to sell my current computer without the hard disk. Does this make me safe? Would the buyer still be able to recover my data some how from the remaining parts? Thanks!

if the data isnt on a different drive in the computer,then where could it be?

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Just to be safe, I prefer to sell without the HDD. I tot there might be some other way of storing data. Like how some accs like steam recognises your computer even after changing hard disk(no need to do authentication) .

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Hmm thanks for the reply. I will look into zero wipe

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