01-02-2012, 01:41
alwite lads.
my brother wants to get a new laptop and we just sold his old one on the ebay. the buyer wishes to make payment in collection and i havent replied back to her yet as i need to know how to format the hard drive for the old laptop, so that the disk is pretty much clean and ready for a fresh windows install. right now its got an illegal version of windows 7 on it and i want to get this off and avoid taking legal risks. i said in the description that the disk's been formatted and has no OP on it, buyer has read and acknowledged this and said its ok. i just need to know how to do it.
does anyone here know how to do it on win7?
alternatively, i was thinking of physically taking the hard drive out, connect it to my laptop via usb and formatting it that way, and then putting it back in the old laptop. i have the box required to put the hard drive in, of which is also used to connect to another computer by usb. all data on the old laptop's been moved/backed up on a flash drive (not much, only the essentials, he's not bothered about the rest);
suggestions? recommendations?
cheers.
my brother wants to get a new laptop and we just sold his old one on the ebay. the buyer wishes to make payment in collection and i havent replied back to her yet as i need to know how to format the hard drive for the old laptop, so that the disk is pretty much clean and ready for a fresh windows install. right now its got an illegal version of windows 7 on it and i want to get this off and avoid taking legal risks. i said in the description that the disk's been formatted and has no OP on it, buyer has read and acknowledged this and said its ok. i just need to know how to do it.
does anyone here know how to do it on win7?
alternatively, i was thinking of physically taking the hard drive out, connect it to my laptop via usb and formatting it that way, and then putting it back in the old laptop. i have the box required to put the hard drive in, of which is also used to connect to another computer by usb. all data on the old laptop's been moved/backed up on a flash drive (not much, only the essentials, he's not bothered about the rest);
suggestions? recommendations?
cheers.