Thanks to John R and John H for the creative suggestions yesterday in regard to wiping this old G4 hard drive. The big magnet sounds like fun, but knowing me, I'd forget and get it too close and wipe out one of my other Macs. LOL. The dynamite option was not entirely off the table with the way things were going here yesterday - if I could have gotten my hands on some. :-)
However, one of my co-workers actually had an old ribbon cable-capable hard drive enclosure. So with a little bit of creative cabling, (The power connector on the enclosure was not the same as the hard drive's.) I was able to pop the drive out of the Mac and get it to show up on another Mac and it appears to be allowing me to wipe the drive as we speak. Thanks for the ideas though guys! Beth Phillips IT Associate PHONE | 800-626-6409 x8385 DIRECT | 502-222-8385 EMAIL | [email protected] WEBSITE | www.Fastline.com _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
