Amber wrote:
> I am about to put my Rev B iMac up for sale and before I do so, I want
> to ensure that the new owner will not have access to my old work files.
>
> Is erasing the hard drive the most secure way to clean a hard drive and
> make any of my files completely irretrievable ?
Technically no, there is no really secure way. Wiping the hard drive will
not give you 100% unrecoverability. You would have to do a "zero all data"
on the drive 7 times for the data to be unrecoverable to a pro Tech.
However, if you boot from CD, run Drive Setup, and in the initialization
options choose "zero all data" it will prevent 99.98 % of all people out
there from seeing the old data.
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