I've bought three laptops via Craigslist so far, every one of them magically had a fresh operating system install. One of them, the guy was finishing up the install as I picked it up.
Interestingly enough, they were all computer type guys, which is why I bought laptops from them for $80-200, instead of non computer type guys who figure they paid $1500 for it five years ago so it must be worth only $500 now, right? (meanwhile, the bargain basement $299 special at Micro Center is four times better in every way, and you can be certain that the battery and charger are good)
rotard wrote:
Netbooks have pretty much no resale value. I wouldn't hold my breath on recouping your loss.
And yet folks here are interested. Hmmm.
Just finished transferring my stuff to a thumb drive.
There is no cd or dvd. I will have to figure out the restorability before I clean it. Maybe I'll just bring it into work and ask one of the IT guys to do it.
rotard
HalfDork
4/21/12 2:34 p.m.
vwcorvette wrote:
rotard wrote:
Netbooks have pretty much no resale value. I wouldn't hold my breath on recouping your loss.
And yet folks here are interested. Hmmm.
Just finished transferring my stuff to a thumb drive.
There is no cd or dvd. I will have to figure out the restorability before I clean it. Maybe I'll just bring it into work and ask one of the IT guys to do it.
Oh? How much are they offering you? Hell, I'm interested if you'll take $40 for it.
Netbooks have no resale value? Is there a reason for that? I could learn to take class notes on one if they're giving them away...
You guys kill me!
Writing from my new Nook tablet!
Gotta get a 16gb flashdrive to make a recovery file for when I wipe the drive on the netbook. BTW, it uses windows 7 professional.
I prefer to nuke old hard drives to insure it can never be recoverd.
I give you the welded hard drive.
Next, on "Will It Blend?"...
vwcorvette wrote:
rotard wrote:
Netbooks have pretty much no resale value. I wouldn't hold my breath on recouping your loss.
And yet folks here are interested. Hmmm.
Just finished transferring my stuff to a thumb drive.
There is no cd or dvd. I will have to figure out the restorability before I clean it. Maybe I'll just bring it into work and ask one of the IT guys to do it.
what brand is the netbook?... as long as it's an original install they all pretty much have a recovery partition on the HDD... makes it super easy and quick to reformat/reinstall everything.
Normally, you would press F10 or F11, Acer is normally Alt + F10 at Startup to commence the Recovery Process..
the last netbook I got was $50 with a bad battery... was a generation old without the better GPU setup... he listed it for $90 and called me hard up for cash 2 weeks later saying he'd take $50... the one before that I paid $120 (nearly 3 years ago now)... neither where reformated, one had a million virus' on it... a quick recovery and they where like new.
if it's in good condition you prob could pull $150 out of it... but depends on your market...
on CL a full reformat, install a few free programs (open office, a good anti virus, chrome, firefox etc) and make sure to specify the specs seems to sell computers much quicker... people don't know what they mean but feel that you do and are somehow more reputable to buy a computer from...
anyway my wife has a kindle fire and uses it most of the time now... i'll root it here at some point as there are some limitations vs full android but if you've got wifi it's not a bad little tool for a lot of people
In reply to donalson:
what brand is the netbook?... as long as it's an original install they all pretty much have a recovery partition on the HDD... makes it super easy and quick to reformat/reinstall everything.
It's an HP Mini 5103. I was reading about the partition thing. I was on the HP site researching reboots and it mentioned this. How can I tell be checking it?
give this a try...
http://www.ehow.com/how_7181204_restore-hp-mini-factory.html
