Erasing Hard Drive Process Has Frozen, What Do I Do?
I am currently erasing my hard drive on my PowerMac G5 with OSX 10.4 on it (put in OSX CD and pressed C on startup...I want to give the computer away)
I did the 8 way erase option for the Journaled portion of the HD, and everything was going fine, albeit slow. I understand this is a process that takes time.
I went to check on it though after a day, and it was only around 40% done. I moved the mouse around and clicked on the menu....annnnnd hellow spinning beach ball. It's been several hours, and the beach ball is still there with no further process to the erasing.
I'm thinking the whole process is now frozen. I'm not sure how I should go about this: just shut off the computer and redo this again? I don't know how this will affect everything.
PowerPC G5-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.4.11)