Delete faulty mac mini hard drive
Good morning,
The video card on my mac mini is shot. I need to wipe the hard drive so I can hopefully sell the unit for parts. How can I wipe the hard drive without the unit having to load up, thanks.
Good morning,
The video card on my mac mini is shot. I need to wipe the hard drive so I can hopefully sell the unit for parts. How can I wipe the hard drive without the unit having to load up, thanks.
- If you can still boot the old Mini and you have another Mac you can connect the two via FireWire and the boot the old one in Target Disk Mode
How to use and troubleshoot FireWire target disk mode - Apple Support
You can then access the HD on the old Mini. Make sure you use a secure erase. That overwrites the date. A simple erase just deletes the directly.
- Otherwise you will have to disassemble the old Mini. For how see:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/mac-mini/
Place the HS in a external enclosure and erase the HD. Or you can just keep the HD yourself
Delete faulty mac mini hard drive