Selling pc question
I’m about to sell my gaming PC. It’s currently dual booting windows and Linux. My windows partition is fully encrypted with veracrypt. And Linux is encrypted with whatever full disk encryption was built in.
What’s best practice for wiping everything and repartioning to get it ready to sell? Do I need to unencrypt before wiping or anything like that?
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You should wipe all the partitions, and ideally zero out the drive(s) if possible. If the OS's are on an SSD, I'd recommend zeroing it out will hurt it's lifespan a bit, but most people won't be impacted by that unless you were using a 128GB drive for the OS's
honestly, I'd buy a new drive to sell with it, and keep the ones that had my data on
Only reason I didn't recommend it is because how costly NAND is now