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How to prepare Powerbook for sale?
· Software · 5 posts · Jul 1, 2004 View original thread ↗
#1 Thu, 1 Jul 2004 - 01:33
Hello

I'm selling my beloved 667 Ti Powerbook to a coworker. I've used this computer a lot for personal stuff over the years. I'm not very computer savvy and I'm wondering what(if anything?) I need to do to make sure my info is not accessible. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!
#2 Thu, 1 Jul 2004 - 01:49
No need to double post.
#3 Thu, 1 Jul 2004 - 01:53
Sorry about that. Was not sure which forum to put it in. Can I delete this one?
#4 Thu, 1 Jul 2004 - 01:54
Zero the drive. There should be an option in Disk Utility (which you can run from the OS X installer)
#5 Thu, 1 Jul 2004 - 02:04
If you have extremely sensitive data that absolutely, positively must not be read by others, do an 8-Way Random Write Format in Disk Utility. Be warned that this will take a long time to finish. For data that's only semi-sensitive, a Zero All Data should be enough.

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