How to SELL a hard drive on eBay. Indeed, why would someone pay for your old but working drive the same price for which you can buy a brand new current generation drive in the store. Who are these people? What is the one thing that annoys me to no end and that actually lowers the value of your hard drive and triggers all sorts of questions to seller. I am your ideal customer I buy hard drives on eBay every day. I buy them in various sizes and at various prices. Refurbished vs. Unless you are actually selling a factory refurbished hard drive with a new part number that identifies it as refurbished, please list the drive as used. A factory-refurbished drive is completely useless to me unless I happen to be working on a factory-refurbished drive.
That's right! In summary, if you want me to buy your drive and not bug you with lots of questions, please mark the drive as used. How to keep your identity safe while selling the hard drive When I am shopping for your hard drive, I couldn't care less what's on it. Flip the drive. Turn Your Old Laptop Into Money. Written by Hank Green on 28/09/07 Hey Look, it's Me! I figured this might be a useful little guide, and as I was recycling my old laptop anyway, I thought I might show how easy it is to sell the bits and pieces.
I have indeed sold everything off, and got about $200 bucks total, not bad considering the laptop is six years old and I only paid around $1,000 for it in the first place. The gist of the video, if you don't want to watch it, is that you can and should recycle your old machines when they've reached the end of their useful life. I sold the RAM and the screen and put the hard drive in an external enclosure and I use it to carry media around the house. Sorry if I'm not overly charismatic...I am, after all, still just a geek in my basement. 10 cool things to do with your old laptop. Before you throw out that old laptop, stop and think of all the things it could be doing for you. You could turn it into anything from an electronic recipe book to a cutprice digital picture frame with just a little know-how, some free software and perhaps a little time spent with a screwdriver.
Heck, even if the thing doesn't boot up it could earn you a few pounds by being broken up to sell off the remaining working parts. 1. Show off your photos Digital picture frames make great interactive ornaments, although their price is beyond many pockets. First you'll need to do a little remodelling. PC Format published a practical guide to converting an old laptop into a professional, wall-mounted digital picture frame last year. 2. FreeCycle is a grassroots movement for passing on unwanted items to those that have a need for them. There are nearly 500 FreeCycle groups spread across the UK, with a total of over 1.7 million members – see www.uk.freecycle.org. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Liked this? How to make a portable external Hard Drive out of an old laptop Hard Drive. Geek to Live: Set up your personal Wikipedia - Capture tools - Lifehacker.
I know this article is more than 2 years old but the basic principles still work well. Thanks for the great guide it helped me get this setup, but some things have changed over the last couple of years. WAMP link is [www.wampserver.com] Downloaded the lastest version (might as well start with the latest version) and installed following directions supplied, worked great, much simpler than installing apache, php, and sql on your own. The latest mediawiki software can be found at [www.mediawiki.org] (again, why not). If you have looked up things on wiki, you might have noticed the the addresses are [en.wikipedia.org] (assuming the english version) but your new wiki has the address of [localhost] Getting rid of this this requires some doing in the [httpd.conf] file Apache conf directory.
I found most of this information on [www.mediawiki.org] with many other google searches. Alias /wiki C:\wamp\www\HighlandWiki\w\index.php In addition at the end of the file, add: AllowOverride all. Geek to Live: How to set up a personal home web server - Apache - Lifehacker. How to Build a Print Server From an Old Computer.