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 > 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/> >
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