I don’t know if these things still exist but I purchased an electric magnet that is about the size of a small iron and gee whiz heavy for it’s size.. I have used it on several drives and seems to wipe them clean..
That’s a woodshed method, not as sophisticated as what you are trying to do. John > On Feb 18, 2016, at 11:00 AM, Beth Phillips <[email protected]> > wrote: > > In doing some spring cleaning at work they found an old, gray G4 in > storage that we are going to haul off to recycling. I wanted to wipe the > hard drive before doing so, but have been unsuccessful in my attempts. > Apparently the CD drive gave up the ghost so I can't boot from the install > CD. I tried an external CD drive but it won't boot from that either. Was > going to boot into Target disk mode and wipe from a remote computer via > firewire, but it won't boot into Target disk mode, I even tried entering > the Terminal command for TDM and rebooting from Terminal and no luck there > either. It just does a normal boot. Is there any option I'm not thinking > of that might work here, besides driving my car over the hard drive? :-) > > Thanks! > > > Beth Phillips > IT Associate > PHONE | 800-626-6409 x8385 > DIRECT | 502-222-8385 > EMAIL | [email protected] > WEBSITE | www.Fastline.com > > Fastline > PO Box 248 Buckner, KY 40010 > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
