[Ti] OT Erasing a hard drive

[Frank Farwell]

>
> On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 02:20  PM, Alexandre Kapellos wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
>>


On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 06:00  PM, Rick Banuelos wrote:

> 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
>
Actually if i remember correctly it depends on what OS your running in 
the first few versions of OSX 10.1- or was it  OS9 ? selecting all 
zeros does nothing for ATA drives just in case using nortons wipe info 
may be a good "just to be sure scenario"

frank farwell