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UTUSN

(75,622 posts)
Mon Sep 8, 2025, 11:03 PM Monday

Guide me to divest of replaced laptop - give away, sell (cheap), what? [View all]

So the old one is 8 GB (new one 16), basically working fine for my low tech needs (email, pics, docs, DU), but what led to the replacement was a recurring popup "storage low free up space" and even now that I cleaned out my personal files that popup still pops. My uninformed point being, will it be usable for somebody and should the price be half off/all off?

It's an HP, Windows 11. Also, HP sold and did a "mover" to send most of my stuff to the new one and the Eraser to wipe whatever. But I put the pics and documents on a thumbdrive, deleted them from the laptop, and tech support for the Eraser said it was better just to do a factory reset instead of doing an Erase, fine. But when the reset got to 62% it tapped out and said "no changes made" and went bye-bye. So it's fairly clear of my stuff? The basic question being, is it usable for whomever whether gifted or sold?




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