[BlindTlk] donating a laptop

[Jen]

You have to format the laptop first - erase everything on the hard drive. A good program for this is DBAN (Derek's Boot and Nuke), which comes as a CD file. You mount the CD file, press F10 and all the information is deleted. I'm not sure how accessible DBAN is though.






On Monday, July 19, 2021, 03:56:12 PM EDT, Madison Martin via BlindTlk <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote: 





Hi all,
Don't know if anyone can help me, but I'm going to ask anyway. My old laptop is
just collecting dust on my desk, but it's still a perfectly good machine for
someone who doesn't care about having the latest and gratest in terms of
computers. Now I know there's Computers for the Blind in Texas, but as I live in
Canada I worry about what it would cost to ship it to them. Does anyone know of
anywhere closer where I could donate my laptop too? I'm not interested in
selling it because I don't know how much  I'd get for it, plus I know that there
are many people especially visually impaired people who can't afford a brand-new
computer so if I could donate it to somewhere so that it could go to someone who
really needs/wants a good machine then I'd love to do that. Hope someone can
help me!!! Thanks
Madison    



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