How to give away / sell my HP safely (with HARD drive).

I was looking for and ask questions on the forums about upgrading my Hp to match my new game requirements. I decided to look into new technologies and to give or sell my current pc. I asked in another thread, that I should protect my information until I got rid of my HARD drives. but I now I intend to separate from my unit as a whole, not just the HARD drive. I want the new user to have access to everything, including the operating system, otherwise it seems like a waste; all keep set will use the most out of this device. However, I also want this to be safe for me. Is it possible to run DBAN, and then re - install the operating system using recovery disks (and maybe a phone call, it will be the same motherboard and cpu, so technical support does not make a fuzz about this, right?). Or running DBAN will clear things to the point where the dics can do nothing more. I ask this question because there is a section on my computer that looks like this: IMAGE FACTORY (d) and when I click on it I get:

Recovery partition

Caveat!

This area of your hard drive

(or partition) contains files used

for the recovery of your PC.

Do not delete or modify these files.

Any change to this partition could

avoid recovery suite

Will be running DBAN will get rid of this and make the recovery dics is no longer applicable, or the dics still work without it? I am thinking about just a gift, it is and just tell the new owner to perform a full recovery of the system (factory settings), but this is probably a bad idea hu? Thank you for your help so far (it's the best forums of suport I was on); and exsuce me for having abused forums, but I could use your help once agan, where you, Big Dave?

My unit: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c01643518

Thank you for your time and your answers.

You can download DBAN 2.2.6 Beta for CD-R and DVD-R media and create a bootable disc. Start the computer from the disk and nuke the hard drive completely. You can set the style of the wipe, number of passes, etc.

Please make sure that you have created a set of HP recovery disks before using DBAN. The HP recovery discs will be used to format the disk, create partitions, install the operating system and restore the 'Image' to the machine. You won't have to call someone to enable the installation of the OS, as HP uses the BIOS, a special OEM certificate and a special HP OEM Windows key to activate the window locally.

Frank

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