On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 02:20 PM, Alexandre Kapellos wrote: > None of the hard drives contain sensitive information, but I wouldn't > won't > anybody to be able to access "old" files. To do this, I plan to: > 1. Initialise the drives > 2. Run Symantec's Wipe Info > 3. Install a fresh system > > Is there anything else I should do? > > You can use the options tab in Drive Setup to select "Zero All Data". You don't have to use Symantec's anything. Doing that writes zeroes to all data sectors on the HD. You can't erase anything more than that. :) Rick Banuelos teasethedog at mac.com