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Apple Computing Products:
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Formatting iMac (Mid 2007)
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<blockquote data-quote="pm-r" data-source="post: 1671975" data-attributes="member: 175845"><p>As Lisa has said: FORMATTING YOUR BOOT VOLUME DRIVE WILL DELETE EVERYTHING!!!!</p><p></p><p>If you're going to go that route and re-install Snow Leopard as completely virgin, due to the obvious age of that Mac I'd seriously zero-out or do a one pass security erase option when formatting the hard drive.</p><p></p><p>That will really erase everything but also map out any and all bad drive sectors that may have developed. It will just take a bit longer to do that extra optional step using Disk Utility on the Snow Leopard 10.6.x install disk under Utilities (menu heading).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pm-r, post: 1671975, member: 175845"] As Lisa has said: FORMATTING YOUR BOOT VOLUME DRIVE WILL DELETE EVERYTHING!!!! If you're going to go that route and re-install Snow Leopard as completely virgin, due to the obvious age of that Mac I'd seriously zero-out or do a one pass security erase option when formatting the hard drive. That will really erase everything but also map out any and all bad drive sectors that may have developed. It will just take a bit longer to do that extra optional step using Disk Utility on the Snow Leopard 10.6.x install disk under Utilities (menu heading). [/QUOTE]
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