[dyou]

hello, mac newbie here!

quick question. i bought a ibook g4 like 3-4 years ago. been a while since i used it actually and one of my friend wants it which i am going to do. however, i just wanted to know what i need to do to delete everything from the hard drive. steps and such. remember, imac newbie here

any help would be greatly appreciated

thank you

david

[adamfishercox]

boot from the install disks (put the disk in, then restart while holding down "C") then just do a clean erase and install.

[Cold Warrior]

If you wanted to be secure about it, choose the Options and do a 7-pass wipe. This will erase all sectors of your hard drive to ensure no one can recover data.

[dosequis09]

I have followed the steps posted here and it is very easy to do