sams0knite
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I'm selling my PC and long story short I went through thorough steps to ensure that I didn't leave any traces, I didn't do a clean OS install or format because I had a digital copy of windows 8 via upgrade and after using CCleaner to free space, uninstalling unneeded software, and manually removing remaining junk folders that weren't essential to windows, and with a reboot I got a black screen with a the message "Missing operating system".
I've done several reboots during this and the last thing I was doing was trying to remove a user folder, I deleted my original user account and was instead using a secondary local admin account I made. Despite removing the account and all my "files" a single folder with hidden files existed, I couldn't view them for whatever reason it was 2 folders "Sam" my name and inside "Desktop" however there were no contents in either folder but windows said they were 3GB in size. So was trying to delete it , getting an error saying need permission to delete <a long string of letters> , and it wouldn't remove. So I thought rebooting would do the trick, but when I did reboot I got the message. I can't figure out how to get it to work.
I do have my windows 8 product key, luckily. Any help would be awesome.
I've done several reboots during this and the last thing I was doing was trying to remove a user folder, I deleted my original user account and was instead using a secondary local admin account I made. Despite removing the account and all my "files" a single folder with hidden files existed, I couldn't view them for whatever reason it was 2 folders "Sam" my name and inside "Desktop" however there were no contents in either folder but windows said they were 3GB in size. So was trying to delete it , getting an error saying need permission to delete <a long string of letters> , and it wouldn't remove. So I thought rebooting would do the trick, but when I did reboot I got the message. I can't figure out how to get it to work.
I do have my windows 8 product key, luckily. Any help would be awesome.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 Pro x64
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS
- CPU
- Intel i7-3630QM
- Memory
- 8.00GB DDR3
- Graphics Card(s)
- Nvidia GeForce 670MX
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1080
- Hard Drives
- 1TB
- Browser
- Chrome