Hello Bill,
This may be a bit extreme but ...
Mount them in an external enclosure, write and run a quickie PERL
script that opens a file fill it full of 1s (via 0xFFFFFF), close file
when drive is full, use Panther's Secure Delete (time-taker on this
thing). Repeat with 0x000000 and Secure Delete. Do this a few times
and you should be safe except from electron microscopy recovery
schemes.
Or break the drive cases open, use a pair of tin snips and then the
contents will really be gone for good, but then so will the drive.
Jerry
On Jul 04, 2004, at 1:04 PM, Bill Rising wrote:
> Hey Folks!
>
> I recently upgraded my wife and step-daughter's Pismo Powerbooks (the
> nice black ones with a white apple which preceded TiBooks) to Panther.
> To hold all the extra OS stuff, I got new 40MB drives for both
> powerbooks.
>
> Here's the question: is there some easy way to zero out the old
> drives, both of which are now sitting on my desk?
>
> I suppose I could take one of the powerbooks, take out the new drive,
> put in each of the old drives and zero them in turn, and then put the
> new drive back in. I'd kinda like a way which would not involve taking
> a pismo apart again. I seem to remember the adage, "the more you
> fiddle with it, the more it will break."
>
> Anyone have an idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
>
>
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