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Erasing your old drives
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Have 2 drives in G4 want to erase, and started a 7 way option. It's only 60GB drive, looks like it's going to take week, and I can't cancel cause it says that could damage drive.
What story on that?
This is much slower than zeroing out data?
Learning the hard way.
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Admin Emeritus  Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
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Well, yeah, it's gonna take longer: it's overwriting all 60GB seven times.
tooki
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Yeah it's nuts, and the problem is you can't cancel out!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway: next time I'll zero out, is that that much less safe?
Still, I shudder to think about my 250 GB Lacie.............
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Trafalmadore
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Why are you formatting it this way ? I am just curious.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Somewhere, but not here.
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when my new G5 arrived and I was cleaning up the ol' G4 I had thought about doing this option too as I was not sure where the G4 would end up. what I did instead was basically run my home dir and data (2nd hard drive) through the built-in secure delete and then zero the drive - I figured that would be good enough to accomodate my level of paranoia, and it did not take as long....
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity...
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Senior User
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Yes, that sounds like way to go.
Do secure delete and the zero out.
The 7 way, still have 4 days to do.
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