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Wiping g4 hard drive before recycling?


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I am deciding of recycling my g4 based Mac system, but as it like keeping your safe open for others to steal data I get quite confused at times and not being able to take the right decision. So, I wanted to eradicate this possibility and this is possible with wiping mac hard drive. But I just don’t know the right way, thanks if anyone can help?

111 day ago

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elinaa 		Recycling is a good idea but, yes the risk of data theft is always associated. Still the issue can be sorted once you wipe mac hard drive.
The process is as follows –
• Restart system with OS X disc inserted, press ‘C’ key with power button pressed till system starts booting from OS X disc
• Next from ‘installer’ menu, click “open disk utilities”
• Select hard drive and then click on erase
• Then choose ‘volume format’ and then “options”
• Check marks “zero all data”, OK and erase, with this data will be erased and drive will be filled with zeroes.
• Take the OS X disc and turn off the system

Now, all data, files and folders are removed from the system and nobody can know it.



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