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Erase hard drive to new
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1144607" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Pop the disc in the drive, turn the machine off. Then, turn it on and immediately press and hold the C key. The machine will boot from the disc. Click through the installer until you see the menu bar appear. When it does, open Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. You should now be able to erase the entire disk. If you're prepping it to sell, I would recommend using the "Zero out" option.</p><p></p><p>More info on the zero out option here:</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/141358/2009/06/securely_wipe_hard_drive.html" target="_blank">Securely wipe your hard drive | Mac OS X | Mac 911 | Macworld</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1144607, member: 24098"] Pop the disc in the drive, turn the machine off. Then, turn it on and immediately press and hold the C key. The machine will boot from the disc. Click through the installer until you see the menu bar appear. When it does, open Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. You should now be able to erase the entire disk. If you're prepping it to sell, I would recommend using the "Zero out" option. More info on the zero out option here: [url=http://www.macworld.com/article/141358/2009/06/securely_wipe_hard_drive.html]Securely wipe your hard drive | Mac OS X | Mac 911 | Macworld[/url] [/QUOTE]
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