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  • ‘zeroing’ every sector is probably ‘good enough’ for mechanical hard drives.

    if the laptops are functional:

    boot a target laptop to a windows install disk or usb. at the first prompt, hit SHIFT-F10 to open a command window.

    diskpart

    list disk

    select disk 0
    (laptop internal drive should be disk 0)

    clean all
    (this will take time. on an older laptop, up to maybe an hour per 250gb of hdd capacity.)

    exit

    power off.

    if they’re NOT functional laptops:

    remove the hdd (search the make and model at yt for guides), connect to another pc (via usb adapter) or internal inside a dt. boot to that system’s normal windows, run diskpart from an admin command prompt… do the same as above but note that in this case: IT WON’T BE DISK 0be sure to ‘select’ the correct disk

    if one of them happens to be an ssd. instead of wiping it (this method isn’t for ssd, btw), get an enclosure for it (as little as $8-10) and use it as an external disk.