Sometimes it feels like getting a stick of dynamite, light it, and run as
fast as you can. Walk fast if you are a senior... :>)
John H

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:00 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
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