Caution at Best Buy
I have a dear friend who let Best Buy recycle her computer after it crashed.
Two years later a guy called her to tell her that he was a techie who often bought used parts and had just bought a hard drive and found her personal banking and financial data, photos of her daughter and other personal sensitive information on the hard drive.
Luckily he was an honest guy. He was able to delete all that stuff and he called the Best Buy where she turned in her computer to report it . She has since been offered a very generous settlement for not going to court and suing Best Buy, which was offered by Best Buy with out any request on her part.
So find out how to delete everything, back to factory settings, and be sure that everything is washed clean. Option 2 is to take a hammer to the hard drive to ensure that your personal data isn't passed on to someone else down the food chain.
Better safe than sorry.
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