Greetings Dapper, You should have a look at this YouTube posting about "low level formatting" However you will have to start your Powerbooks from the install disk, select Disk Utility and then follow the YouTube instructions. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø On Feb 27, 2010, at 12:02 PM, dapper dan wrote: > 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? > > thanx much > dan > > Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. > Sign up now._______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20100227/fd9cf051/attachment.htm>