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<blockquote data-quote="Chef_eam" data-source="post: 1060284" data-attributes="member: 135390"><p>1) You can zero out the data on the drive in Disk Utility. This will completely erase the drive. You can choose the security options to have it write Zeros over all the data. You can choose between 1, 7 and I think 35 passes depending on how sure you want to be that no data is recoverable. You will of course have to reinstall Mac OS X after this.</p><p></p><p>2) After wiping the drive, if you have chosen to have it 'Zero" out the data with the security options, the OS will have to be reinstalled. After "zeroing" the drive and reinstalling, the will be no accounts set up initially and is highly unlikely that anyone would be able to recover your old account.</p><p></p><p>3) If you include the third party software with the machine, you will also have to transfer the original disks to the new owner. Otherwise, the installed software will in effect be illegal copies of the software. It would also be illegal to make copies of the disks to keep for yourself to install on other machines.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chef_eam, post: 1060284, member: 135390"] 1) You can zero out the data on the drive in Disk Utility. This will completely erase the drive. You can choose the security options to have it write Zeros over all the data. You can choose between 1, 7 and I think 35 passes depending on how sure you want to be that no data is recoverable. You will of course have to reinstall Mac OS X after this. 2) After wiping the drive, if you have chosen to have it 'Zero" out the data with the security options, the OS will have to be reinstalled. After "zeroing" the drive and reinstalling, the will be no accounts set up initially and is highly unlikely that anyone would be able to recover your old account. 3) If you include the third party software with the machine, you will also have to transfer the original disks to the new owner. Otherwise, the installed software will in effect be illegal copies of the software. It would also be illegal to make copies of the disks to keep for yourself to install on other machines. [/QUOTE]
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