Question on selling hardware

[DragonFire]

Please forgive me if this should be posted somewhere else but I wasn't to sure where would be best.

A very quick question, I might be selling a laptop soon which is only 3-4 months old. It came with XP home which has been reg with MS, so how do I go about getting it ready to sell?

Would I just keep the XP CD and format the drive? Would I be able to keep the restore cd with the laptop or is that something I must keep? While the lappy will come with the manual and even the org box, do I have to put a cd togeather containing all the drivers for it or would pointing the buyer to a few links where they can download whats need be enough?

I have sold hardware before but never a whole computer, I need all the input I can get on how to go about doing this so I can get it right the first time.

Thanks

 

[DragonFire]

Anyone??

 

[Luckyboy1]

Well, it depends on how paranoid you are about someone else getting a peek at what you may or may not consider an exciting online life. If you really have extra sensitive data on that drive, then getting some sort of program that writes everything over with 0's and then 1's and then back and forth again a few times is in order. If you are as boring as the rest of us and don't have any State secrests stashed on your PC, then you just reformat it and load the XP and antivirus and whatnot, list it on eBay and give them the laptop and all the discs when the time comes, because by rights, the basic programming goes with the hardware as far as I'm concerned unless you expressly deny it to the customer in the sales pitch.

 

[DragonFire]

Thanks for the reply, I do have one other question. In a way I got two copies of XP Home with the Lappy. One is the OEM version with it's own CD-Key that has not been touched and then there is the copy that the restore cd installs along with it's own CD-Key.

The CD-Key the restore cd uses has been registered with MS, if I hand that disc over when selling the lappy and the buyer uses the restore cd at some point.... Would that not cause some problems when the buyer goes to activate windows?

 

[RebateMonger]

Any Microsoft OEM software and keys that came with the computer should stay with the computer. You might as well hand it off with the computer, since using the software on another computer is in violation of the End User License Agreement. That's what your licensing agreement with your computer manufacturer doubtless says.

 

[DragonFire]

Alright, Thanks for the input. I guess I'll get it all cleaned up and put up for sale on the forums