On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Put it in the external enclosure, plug it in to the Mac, fire up Disk > Utility, select the drive and erase the disk in MS DOS format. You can > repartition the thing if you really want but just erasing the drive will do > just fine. >
Well, if it was me and I was going to wipe the drive I would definitely wipe/zero out the partition table. Just on the off chance that a boot sector might veer off into supposedly unpartitioned space and wake up something nasty. Maybe that's not a likely scenario. But then again it doesn't take much longer to destroy the partitions and rebuild them and then you're that little bit more sure you're clean. No? Maybe it's just me ... -irrational john -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
