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

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        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.

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      Pretty sure it’s still a functional option at least… Seems to remember it still being there on the last Hiren’s boot I used.