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The easiest / fastest way to wipe a HD ?
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<blockquote data-quote="djames42" data-source="post: 307789" data-attributes="member: 13241"><p>Sure it does... If you tell it to. When you boot off the Installer, you can fire up disk utility. When you erase the partition, there's a security options button that will allow you to do a single/multi pass delete (the multi being the safest, but it can take many, many hours to run). Not doing either of these options will delete the partition, but not erase the data. With the right tools, the next user who ends up with your machine could conceivably recover your data. Chances of that happening are next to nil, but if you're concerned, then definitely go one of those routes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="djames42, post: 307789, member: 13241"] Sure it does... If you tell it to. When you boot off the Installer, you can fire up disk utility. When you erase the partition, there's a security options button that will allow you to do a single/multi pass delete (the multi being the safest, but it can take many, many hours to run). Not doing either of these options will delete the partition, but not erase the data. With the right tools, the next user who ends up with your machine could conceivably recover your data. Chances of that happening are next to nil, but if you're concerned, then definitely go one of those routes. [/QUOTE]
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