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Erasing free space
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salaryman
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Jun 28, 2006, 04:33 AM
 
Hi there

I am sending my MBP back to Apple for repair (new logic board to fix the CPU whine apparently!) so I need to erase all the free space on the drive. Could someone please tell me if there is a freeware application out there that will do this?

I have already deleted everything from the drive, I just want to perform a clean on the 'deleted' data.

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Jun 28, 2006, 04:52 AM
 
I assume you mean you want to overwrite the disk. There's a secure erase or secure delete or something along those lines option in Disk Utility, if I recall.
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Jun 28, 2006, 05:30 AM
 
Disk Utility ➔ Erase ➔ Erase Free Space…
     
   
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