Question regarding selling a HDD

[machintos]

I'm trying to sell the HDD on the FS/FT forum. The drive was taken out of my dell i8600 as soon as I opened the box. So, this means that I never activated windows xp home that's installed. I never did reinstall xp home on the new drive because I installed xp pro.
I did however installed the other

The question is:
1. If I do sell the HDD, does this mean I'm selling the hdd only, or with windows xp home OEM?? Should I price the HDD just for the HDD or should I also consider the price of XP home on it?
2. If I sell the HDD only and the person who purchases the HDD activates the OS, can I still sell the OS as an OEM item? I will not include the OS disc with the HDD.
3. What other things should I be aware of??

Thanks for the help guys. I hope I posted this question on the right forum.

 

[MrChad]

The OS is tied to the computer it was sold with. Legally, you should remove XP from the hard drive prior to selling it. That license of XP is only good on the computer it was bundled with.

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[Injury]

Format the drive before you sell it. You cannot include an OEM copy of Windows without the original equipment. Should the computer be destroyed, the OEM version is still tied to it.

The people on FS/FT let you get by with selling it with a piece of hardware from the original computer, as if that constitutes selling it with the computer, but I think that is stupid.

 

[machintos]

ok so basically my windows have to be removed, right? Now... how do I do that??? Sorry, I'm not really a computer guy.
And this also means, I can't sell the OEM copy by itself, correct??

 

[blakeatwork]

Here's a quick, simple fix...

Format the drive.

Unless you're also selling the CPU and MOBO, you are obligated to not sell the OS.. Of course, those are Microsoft's rules, so do whatever the hell you want... just don't bitch if you get in trouble..

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: machintos
ok so basically my windows have to be removed, right? Now... how do I do that??? Sorry, I'm not really a computer guy.
And this also means, I can't sell the OEM copy by itself, correct??

Correct.

To format the drive, hook it up to a computer and either boot with a floppy into DOS and format from there, or if you have it hooked up to a computer running XP (but not from the HD you want to format) you can just right click on it in "my computer" and select "format".

here is more info on formatting from DOS:
http://www.computerhope.com/formathl.htm

 

[olds]

Originally posted by: Injury

The people on FS/FT let you get by with selling it with a piece of hardware from the original computer, as if that constitutes selling it with the computer, but I think that is stupid.

Which "people" would those be?

 

[machintos]

thanks for all the replies guys. I'm gonna reformat the drive before selling it.

 

[FoBoT]

wipe the drive

you are just selling a drive, it has nothing to do with a microsoft OS

 

[Anubis]

you should wipe the drive, However whoever gets this drive from you will most likely format it anyway, it is highly unlikely that he would be able to just plug it into a comp and make it boot into windows, because the install contains mobo and CPU info and such, so putting it a diff comp wouldent work anyway

but just format it, it onlyt takes like 10min

 

[cquark]

Other things you should know: formatting does not destroy 99% of the data on the drive.

Yes, it's fine as far as meeting your EULA obligations for Windows, but if you have used your computer for any confidential purposes like credit card purchases or tax returns, you need to do more than delete files and format the drive. Free tools like DriveRescue, Restoration, and Disk Investigator can recover deleted files and formatted drives. People have found amazingly confidential items off of e-bay drives and computers.

You should autoclave your drive before selling it. It'll take a minute to download and a few minutes to use, but all data will be wiped.

 

[machintos]

Originally posted by: cquark
Other things you should know: formatting does not destroy 99% of the data on the drive.

Yes, it's fine as far as meeting your EULA obligations for Windows, but if you have used your computer for any confidential purposes like credit card purchases or tax returns, you need to do more than delete files and format the drive. Free tools like DriveRescue, Restoration, and Disk Investigator can recover deleted files and formatted drives. People have found amazingly confidential items off of e-bay drives and computers.

You should autoclave your drive before selling it. It'll take a minute to download and a few minutes to use, but all data will be wiped.

Thanks for all the inputs and thanks for the program. I'm gonna format my hdd later tonight.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: cquark

You should autoclave your drive before selling it. It'll take a minute to download and a few minutes to use, but all data will be wiped.

autoclave rocks!

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: cquark

You should autoclave your drive before selling it. It'll take a minute to download and a few minutes to use, but all data will be wiped.

autoclave rocks!

Yes it does. Though I bet NSA could crack their top-level format if they REALLY wanted to.

 

[PoPPeR]

Originally posted by: jagec

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: cquark

You should autoclave your drive before selling it. It'll take a minute to download and a few minutes to use, but all data will be wiped.

autoclave rocks!

Yes it does. Though I bet NSA could crack their top-level format if they REALLY wanted to.

if its gotten that far... i'd say you're screwed already