I was about to "wipe clean" my G5 iMac for resale or give away with Installer Disc. However, the only disc I can find reads, "iMac G5 Additional Software & Apple Hardware Test" . Can I erase the drive with this disc? If not, how? HELP!
~Neophyte NaNa~
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Doubtful. Very.
You can define a new user & delete old users. Then, zero out free space.
Restore Tiger 10.4 & Leopard 10.5 DVDs are available from Apple by calling 800-767-2775 as of January 20, 2013. There is a small fee.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4720126?tstart=0
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Zeroing out free space.
mac hd > Applications > Utilities >Disk Utility
For this example, my startup drive is Ext-Remainder
1) Click on your startup partition.
It's a little confusion which to click on. There is the harddrive and under the harddrive name, the partition name or names.
You want the name of your startup partition.
Click on this name.
2) click on the erase tab.
3) Click on Erase Free Space button at the bottom mid-left of erase panel.
in this panel.
4) You will be asked how many times you wish to erase. One time takes the last amount of time.
4) Erasing more than once will take a long time.
Thank you RCC ! Following your directions, it's in the process of "erasing" (approx. 8 hours) and a restore 10.5 disc is on the way from Apple.
Great!
it's in the process of "erasing" (approx. 8 hours) and a restore 10.5 disc is on the way from Apple.
But, you should do the zeroing as the last step. When you delete a file, the data becomes like a needle in a haystack. It's hard to find, but with enough searching, it may be found. Techniaclly, the pointer is deleted, the data is left on the hd as is, and when more space is needed, the space get reused.
Robert
"Wipe clean" hard drive
