If there were files and applications he was okay with selling on the HD, you'd have to move them to a ZIP drive first, and reinstall them later. If that case, he shouldn't mind you copying his Preferences folder as well, in order to make sure these will RUN in a new location, and since no sensitive files should reside there.
A hard drive formatted this way will contain no recoverable data of any kind.
Since you have two HDs, you can move stuff to one HD, and reformat the financial info HD, booting from the other HD ( the one you've saved apps to ). In other words, no need for a separate ZIP drive.
Hello!
I am about to receive my second-ever compact mac from my uncle in a week or so. It is a Macintosh SE/30 with an external hard drive, and a MacDirector power manager device. Before he gives it to me, he wants me to wipe his hard drive so that his financial information is not recoverable. I know of some software for PCs that will 'scrub' the hard drive, but can anyone suggest good software for this mac? I think that the system is os 6.0.8, but I think that I'd need a bootable floppy in order to fully wipe everything.
Kyle DePasquale
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