[X-Newbies] Erase contents of hard disc

[Randy B. Singer]

On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Keith Mills wrote:

> 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.

See:
http://www.udel.edu/pnpi/tools/erase/mac/erasedisk.html

"C" refers to the key for the letter "C".

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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)

Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance
http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html
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