[jmacs_imac]

Having few problems with Tiger on Mac Mini 1.42 , 80 gig, superdrive, airport and would like to start back fresh with a COMPLETE erase of my hard drive and fresh OS 10.4 install. Have disc with Tiger on it... not sure what next step is. If anyone has suggestions or a link to print out procedure for reinstalling, would appreciate any help. I have backed up all the important files I want to save. I may sell the macmini and would like to wipe out my hard drive clean of all files except what is needed for Tiger. Thanx

[Apfhex]

Boot from the Tiger disc and tell it to do an "Erase and Install".

[bowwowman]

If you had any sensitive personal information on that HDD, or did any banking, online purchases or other financial transactions on that machine, I would HIGHLY recommend using Disk Utility's Security options tab & select the "7-pass, write ones & zeros".

This will take a while, but will render 99.9% of all data on the disk unrecoverable.......Once completed, then you can do a fresh, new install of OS X.