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From: Club_obi_wan on 2 Feb 2008 00:39
I'd like to sell my toshiba satellite a85. It's a 2005 version and I
upgraded it a bit to 768mb. 2 questions:

1. How can i figure out how much it's worth?

2.. What is the best way to remove/delete my files from the hard
drive? I do not have, cannot find, to my knowledge never had the
system recovery disks. If it came w/ the computer it's gone now as
far as I can figure so i'm not sure where to go from here.

Thanks in advance
From: iws on 2 Feb 2008 12:48
"Club_obi_wan" <club_obi_wan(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'd like to sell my toshiba satellite a85. It's a 2005 version and I
> upgraded it a bit to 768mb. 2 questions:
>
> 1. How can i figure out how much it's worth?

eBay will give you a good idea of what it's worth - lately a85's seem to go
for $200-300.

>
> 2.. What is the best way to remove/delete my files from the hard
> drive? I do not have, cannot find, to my knowledge never had the
> system recovery disks. If it came w/ the computer it's gone now as
> far as I can figure so i'm not sure where to go from here.
>
> Thanks in advance

It's possible there is a recovery partition on the laptop that would permit
a new owner to recover the operating system and the original pre-installed
software if any. The instruction manual should provide that info or you
should be able to see the recovery partition using Windows Disk Management.
I use Eraser to remove files completely from my hard drive. Not sure if
there's something better for wiping an entire partition.


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