that’s one of the reasons i think Lenovo has won the laptop war, they include all operating systems and make it very easy to install any on your device, i love Ubuntu a lot, and chromeOS too

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    11 months ago

    Doesn’t the installation of the new OS do the wiping? I was wondering because I never did it differently.

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      11 months ago

      I haven’t a clue, I just never chanced it. When I’d sell a PC I’d always DBAN it.

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      It all depends on how sure you want to be that whatever was there previously is unrecoverable.

      DBAN is up to DOD standards if I remember correctly.