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Wiping the hard drive
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1041453" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>In addition to what McBie advised, note that if the drive is your boot drive (internal to your machine) that you can not use Disk Utility while the system is active. You have to boot from your install DVD in order to use Disk Utility to wipe the drive. If it's an external drive, then you can use Disk Utility directly.</p><p></p><p>Regards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1041453, member: 46727"] In addition to what McBie advised, note that if the drive is your boot drive (internal to your machine) that you can not use Disk Utility while the system is active. You have to boot from your install DVD in order to use Disk Utility to wipe the drive. If it's an external drive, then you can use Disk Utility directly. Regards. [/QUOTE]
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