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[Exfarmer]

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.

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.
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

 

[ollie989898]

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.
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

You need to use a non-windows utility like kill disk that loads as an ISO. You boot the machine using this utility on a USB drive and it allows you to wipe the drive.

 

[Cowabunga]

Just noticed that the Police Service has 'accidentally' wiped 400,000 'customer' records, including fingerprints and DNA. Either they are completely incompetent blithering idiots, or as I suspect, there is more to this than meets the eye.

 

[ollie989898]

Just noticed that the Police Service has 'accidentally' wiped 400,000 'customer' records, including fingerprints and DNA. Either they are completely incompetent blithering idiots, or as I suspect, there is more to this than meets the eye.

No, I think you were right with your first suggestion.

 

[Bloders]

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.
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

it frustrates me how much crap is installed on new machines.
whenver i get a new machine, the first thing i do is un-install loads of programs off them.

 

[J B]

it frustrates me how much crap is installed on new machines.
whenver i get a new machine, the first thing i do is un-install loads of programs off them.

I just do a clean install of Windows

 

[Bloders]

I just do a clean install of Windows

frustrating to have to do that on a new machine though. I agree its the best way but I havent recently for fear of not having the key etc (not looked very hard)

 

[J B]

frustrating to have to do that on a new machine though. I agree its the best way but I havent recently for fear of not having the key etc (not looked very hard)

In recent W10 the 'key' is on the motherboard so doesn't actually need any input.