Exfarmer
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One of the machines I had was an HP pavilion. I used the boot utility, but it seemed to have an verriding programme in there from HP which gave an automatic protection to the machine, so even though it rebooted all the information was protected.It's the batteries that are borked and many of these machines won't run an MS office suite today.
If you want to wipe a machine, do it with a bootable utility, you can't do this within windows.
I wonder if the manufacturers are deliberately doing tricks like this , so that machines are junked or stored in lofts , rather than passed on.
I certainly will never have another HP machine, it was a continual pain in the **** , with pop ups and downloads of junk all thr time