If I remove the hard drive from the burner laptop I bought, will there still be any information that can be traced back to me?

Let's say I bought a laptop from someone and used that laptop to store important documents (text files containing account passwords) and intimate photos. Then one day, life took a turn for the worse and I was fired from my job. I badly needed some money so I decided I would just sell that laptop.

The contents of the drive matter to me so I removed it from the laptop and keep it. Once I removed the drive from the …

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