[Ti] How do I remove OS9 from Panther?

[Robert Ameeti]

>When you use disk utility to format normally, it leaves what you might call
>a ~table of contents~, or cache, of every fragment of the disk that ever had
>a file. If you leave it that way when you install, well, every time your CPU
>looks for data, it has to read all the historical contents of the old
>systems to find out it isn't there anymore. Of course, it aids in certain
>types of data recovery, say after an accidental file delete, but who ever
>cares? The NSA maybe. There is also an option for erasing "8 Ways To
>Sunday", which randomly writes to the blocks 7 or 8 times, then zero's out
>the drive.
>
>When you zero it out, it writes 0's to every single line, therefore the CPU
>sees the zero and goes to the next 0 to the next much faster. Allot faster
>multiplied by millions of 1's, and whatever path to the data it left as it
>searches through the sectors for instructions.
>
>Open Disk Utility during initial install and select the disk or volume in
>the list on the left.
>Click Options (optional) to choose a more secure method of erasing the disk
>("Zero all data" and "8 Way Random Write Format").

There's not an ounce of fact in all of what you've wrote. Time for you to get out some books and start reading how it all really works.
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Robert Ameeti

Too many freaks not enough circuses.
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