[X-Newbies] Erase contents of hard disc

Wing Wong wingedpower at gmail.com
Mon Apr 4 13:02:33 PDT 2011


You could put your old mac in fw target mode, then plug it into your
new mac. Run disk utility and secure erase the drive that way.

Then, you can do a clean os install on it for resale or just leave blank.

Wing.

On 4/4/11, Keith Mills <4.oiseaux at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> Sorry - me failing again. I am loving my new iMac and want to "dump" my old
> eMac.
>
> I looked up how to erase the hard disc contents to make it safe to dispose
> of. It looked easy enough! But ...
>
> The disc I have is "Install and Restore". Is that the right one?
> I am told to hold down the C key. Is that "C', "ctrl" or "cmd"?
> In Disk Utility, I have got as for as Erase and clicked on this.
>
> Here is where I come to a halt. Where am I going wrong? I think that I have
> ended up using reinstall. But that is not the answer, is it?
>
> Thanks
> Keith
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