I work in an office that has long phased out these old white iMacs. Before we throw them out we need to format them, but I'm having a lot of trouble with this. We have so many generations of Macs in this office that we have a folder with all our OS software. I cannot find the CD that matches to this one. We have so many versions of OSx.
Every disk I've tried starting up with gives me trouble. One iMac will take me to some scary screen with a bunch of goobledigook I don't understand and then I have to restart.
Short of physically blowing these things up, how can I wipe these drives? At this office there isn't an IT person and the buck stops with me. I've got 5 or 6 of these to do. Please let me know the best way, because trying to boot from a startup disk doesn't seem to be working for me.
I've seen suggestions of booting from an external so I might try that but I want to see if there are easier ways.
Thank you so much
Every disk I've tried starting up with gives me trouble. One iMac will take me to some scary screen with a bunch of goobledigook I don't understand and then I have to restart.
Short of physically blowing these things up, how can I wipe these drives? At this office there isn't an IT person and the buck stops with me. I've got 5 or 6 of these to do. Please let me know the best way, because trying to boot from a startup disk doesn't seem to be working for me.
I've seen suggestions of booting from an external so I might try that but I want to see if there are easier ways.
Thank you so much