Guides tagged Data wiping

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• Selling and value

  Where to sell a laptop in the UK: the options compared

  Currys trade-in, musicMagpie, CeX, Back Market, a private sale and us, compared on how you're paid, how fast, and which of them take a broken laptop.

  4 min read

• Faults and damage

  Cracked laptop screen: repair it or sell it as it is

  Whether a screen repair pays for itself before you sell, which marks make a laptop Faulty on our form, and how to protect the screen and your files meanwhile.

  4 min read

• Faults and damage

  Spilled water on a laptop: what to do in the first minutes

  The steps to take in the first minutes after a spill, why sugary drinks are worse than water, and why a laptop that dries out and works again is still Faulty.

  4 min read

• Getting ready to sell

  How to wipe a laptop before you sell it

  The steps to wipe a Windows 11 or Windows 10 laptop before it goes: what to sort out first, which reset to pick, and the switch that cleans the drive.

  4 min read

• Selling and value

  What to do with an old laptop

  Four things to do with an old laptop, in the order we'd try them: sell it, pass it on, keep it as a spare, or recycle it. Wipe it first either way.

  4 min read