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cigarman · Jul 1, 2004, 02:33 AM

Hello

I'm selling my beloved 667 Ti Powerbook to a coworker. I've used this computer a lot for personal stuff over the years. I'm not very computer savvy and I'm wondering what(if anything?) I need to do to make sure my info is not accessible. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Randman · Jul 1, 2004, 02:49 AM

No need to double post.

cigarman · Jul 1, 2004, 02:53 AM

Sorry about that. Was not sure which forum to put it in. Can I delete this one?

Agasthya · Jul 1, 2004, 02:54 AM

Zero the drive. There should be an option in Disk Utility (which you can run from the OS X installer)

CharlesS · Jul 1, 2004, 03:04 AM

If you have extremely sensitive data that absolutely, positively must not be read by others, do an 8-Way Random Write Format in Disk Utility. Be warned that this will take a long time to finish. For data that's only semi-sensitive, a Zero All Data should be enough.