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In response to "STIS: I bought a laptop in January at Costco, but think I'm going to take it back and exchange it." by JaxSean

They'll take back a laptop? I mean, I can tell you how to DBAN the hard drive but they might want it restored to factory settings.

Posted by Mop (aka rburriel) Mar 2 '19, 20:18

Do they resell it now? Does factory resetting wipe out your data? Not really. You'd need a sector wipe for that to happen. But then factory resetting may not be in the cards. That's quite a pickle. What does kiblo say?

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I think he could DBAN it, all they will want to see is it will boot still. - Karl_S Mar 2, 21:02 3
- I just went with the reset method. I didn't have much of anything on there yet, anyway. - JaxSean Mar 2, 22:36 2
  - probably, you could always reset the passwords for those services if you wanted -- nm - Karl_S Mar 2, 22:57 1
    - Hmm good point -- nm - JaxSean Mar 2, 22:59
Pretty sure they take back anything for 90 days. - JaxSean Mar 2, 20:30
Do laptops still do that thing where an invisible HD partition contains the restore volume? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 2, 20:26 1
- I think there may be a separate partition with the OS installer on it. If that’s the case, DBAN would do the trick and then simply factory reset. -- nm - Mop Mar 2, 21:33

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They'll take back a laptop? I mean, I can tell you how to DBAN the hard drive but they might want it restored to factory settings.

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