how to wipe hard drive?

[cookiethecrumb]

 Hey guys im selling my old windows 7 pc and it has a 1TB Hard drive that has all my files and the os. I know if you put things in the recycle bin and delete they are not actually gone. how do i permentaly delete these and not the os? thanks for any help! (also ive tried doing the "restore to factory settings" but i wants a boot disk which i no longer have)

[Electronics Wizardy]

Try something like dban to wipe the full drive, then reinstall the os.

 

Id put windows 10 on it anyways when your at it.

[cookiethecrumb]

3 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try something like dban to wipe the full drive, then reinstall the os.

 

Id put windows 10 on it anyways when your at it.

how do i reinstall the os without loosing the licence?

[Electronics Wizardy]

11 minutes ago, cookiethecrumb said:

how do i reinstall the os without loosing the licence?

what is the license from?

 

Normally you can just punch the same key in again for windows 10 and it will activate

[Eighjan]

11 minutes ago, cookiethecrumb said:

how do i reinstall the os without loosing the licence?

Attach it to your MS account (or the MS account the PC is using), in the Activation page in Windows... before you wipe it, of course.

When you reinstall Windows, choose 'I don't have a key' & once you log in w/ the same MS account, it should reactivate.

[cookiethecrumb]

1 hour ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what is the license from?

 

Normally you can just punch the same key in again for windows 10 and it will activate

 

1 hour ago, Eighjan said:

Attach it to your MS account (or the MS account the PC is using), in the Activation page in Windows... before you wipe it, of course.

When you reinstall Windows, choose 'I don't have a key' & once you log in w/ the same MS account, it should reactivate.

Thanks for the help guys i got it to work