Help With Wiping Sony Vaio FW48E/H

I'm selling a Sony Vaio FW48E/H on eBay. I want to wipe everything off it so whoever buys it literally had a brand new laptop (it's in pretty good condition as well).

I was going to format the hard drive but I got a message about the hard drive have the Windows program on it so I couldn't format it. Unfortunately I don't have the any disks as i've recently moved and i've misplaced them.

Is there any way to wipe everything off easily?

Also how do I set it up so there are no users? So when the person who buys it turns it on they get the exact same screen that I saw when I bought it new.

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Can you burn new discs, or use the recovery partition?

 

If you want to be 100% convinced that someone can't recover your files, burn new recovery disks, then use a DBAN to completely and securely wipe all your files (it has many options to how secure you want to be). Then recover from recovery disks.

 

Thanks for the responses.

How do I create a recovery partition and then put the Windows Vista program in it?

Sorry for sounding like a technophobe!

 

Do you have vaio care on your vaio, if you have go to recovery and look at the options (do not remember them )?

When the recover is finished, you will be prompted to choose language, user, network and so on. Just turn off you computer, thats is.

If the recovery is similar to the Win 7 recover.

 

Assuming have not removed the recovery partition hit F10 while the machines boots - will load the OS (like out of the box state) from the hidden partition.