How to wipe drive before selling laptop?

[sobamonster42]

I know there are programs that will wipe the drive several times over but I was wondering if the built-in windows 8 "fully clean your drive" feature will do an acceptable job?

the laptop is OEM and comes with windows and recovery partition so i cant afford to completely wipe the drive.

 

[bootcher]

http://www.howtogeek.com/137108/how-securely-overwrite-free-space-in-windows/

 

[sobamonster42]

http://www.howtogeek.com/137108/how-securely-overwrite-free-space-in-windows/

thx. so i should run this after i reset windows just to be sure???

 

[bootcher]

Run it before and after if you want to be sure. But only 1 time should be enough.

 

[juandon]

Dban is a tried and true solution. It takes a while, but you know nothing is getting recovered from it.

http://www.dban.org/