<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Greetings Dapper,<div><br></div><div>You should have a look at this YouTube posting about "low level formatting"</div><div>However you will have to start your Powerbooks from the install disk, select Disk Utility and then follow the YouTube instructions.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Harry</div><div>San Jose, Ca</div><div>ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø </div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:02 PM, dapper dan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">i have two older mac powerbooks and i am going to sell them.what do you recommend i do in terms of wiping clean info ie: stuff to do for security so the next person does not get valuable info i might have neglected?<br><br>thanx much<br>dan<br><br><hr>Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/" target="_new">Sign up now.</a>_______________________________________________<br>G4 mailing list<br><a href="mailto:G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">G4@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</a><br><a href="http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4">http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>