Erasing a PowerBook's boot drive?
Christopher Bort
topher at thehundredacre.net
Fri Apr 27 11:14:24 PDT 2007
On 04/27/07 08:45, newslists at autonomy.caltech.edu (Roland
Torres) wrote:
>A friend of mine is going to sell her 12" PowerBook. She wants to make
>sure that none of her own information or data is retrievable on the
>boot drive, so she wants to wipe it and reinstall 10.3 on it. I'm
>thinking that the only way to do this is to boot from an external
>drive, and then use Disk Utility to wipe (multiple-pass erase) the
>main drive. Will this work? Is there a way to boot from one of the
>install CDs and do the same thing?
Use Disk Utility from the install CD?
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Christopher Bort
<topher at thehundredacre.net>
<http://www.thehundredacre.net/>
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