Windows 10: How can I recover my Windows installation if I wipe my hard drive?

Hello, I just purchased a second-hand laptop and it came with a Windows 11 installation on it.For several reasons, I'm planning to wipe the hard drive and install a Linux distribution, but it could be possible that in the future I may want to use Windows again on this machine.How I will be able to re-install Windows again? In other words, which are the proper steps to take in order to avoid losing the Windows license? Please note that I do not care of taking any backup, since this machine does not have personal files at the moment.Thank you.

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hard drive wiping software

anything that can do it in windows?

i dont want the whole drive wiped, just the stuff that i've deleted in the past, wouldn't want those files to be recovered.

 

Hard Drive wiping tool

Hello,

I will be selling my PC in a couple of days, is there a tool which will allow me to completely wipe the hard drive so no sensitive information can be recovered, but also leaving the hard drive in a usable condition because it will be formatted with a new Operating System ready for the next user.

Thanks! *Toast :toast:

 

How to wipe a hard drive

modder I already used kill-disk. The deletion is done, I need to reinstall everything.