Last summer I worked at a Department of Energy Laboratory (Sandia National
Labs in Albuquerque) All the computers that came to Reapplication needed to
be sanitized according to government regulations for possible sensitive and
secret information. Guess what we use??? Norton Wipe. 3 passes and that baby
would be ready to send to China...really...
:)
Chris Hohimer
on 7/12/01 4:28 AM, (G-List) at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Subject: How to prepare an old Mac for sale?
> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 09:08:42 +0200
>
>
> Hi list;
>
> We have just got one of the last (if not the last) Cubes sold in Denmark,
> which means
> we want to sell our good old 7500/G3. Now, there was/is some info on it
> that is no-ones
> else's business (login to email account, Internet connection, our budget).
>
> I know this can all be sorted by doing a low-level formatting of the HD,
> but then I would
> have to get a number of drivers again before selling it. Also, there is
> some software
> installed others could find useful. And we are not _that_ paranoid.
>
> The HD is partitioned in 4: System, Apps, Files and Scratch.
>
> My approch is:
> 1) Re-initialize Files and Scratch.
> 2) Delete registered Apps, all preference files plus other stuff I can
> think of.
> 3) Copy System to Files (while booted from cd), re-initialize System
> 4) Copy System back, delete the copy on Files.
>
> As I see it, only someone quite dedicated would (with luck) be able to find
> anything.
>
> Comments, please!
>
> TIA,
>
> Martin
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