I have several OS hard drives in a workstation,
the program would like me to neuter the old OS X drives so they cannot boot up.
the data on these OS hard drive must be accessible.
thanks
What program?
Copy the data off the drive you need to save to another location. Format the drive, copy the data back. That will clear up a good 6 GB of space on each one (for the OS itself), and will of course then not be bootable.
sorry i cannot do that for various reasons including Security
if you have to ask what program than you do not have a need to know
Then there is nothing you can do.
Can't do what? Can't temporarily copy the data somewhere else before erasing the drive? Not allowed to erase the drive at all?
Regardless of your answer, then put the System, Library and Applications folders in the trash and delete them. Doing that will leave many hidden folders and files behind, and it will take a while to delete the thousands of files and folders you put in the trash, but it will be non bootable after that. Which is why I suggested copy/erase/copy back. It would take much less time.
Deleting the mach kernel would also cause a system drive to be cease to function as such.
how do you neuter an old OS X hard drive but still keep the data on it?
