Kill Disk will write zeros to the hard drive and wipe out everything. You would have to restore the OS from a USB if you did it this way.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 1, 2017, at 7:50 PM, Pen Helm <[email protected]> wrote: > > You might be able to simply create a new user and delete the existing user in > System Preferences:Users & Groups. > That would leave your System and Applications intact. > >> On Jan 1, 2017, at 7:29 PM, William Micou <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Need some advice- >> My step-daughter is serving with the Peace Corps in Ghana Africa. The >> computer she has with her is fine, but another volunteer has a laptop that >> is very old and slow. I want to send her a older MacBook that I have. I know >> how to remove the pictures and save them to a flash drive/ hard drive. My >> concern is how do I erase the laptop’s internal hard drive and make it clean >> of my data? Of course I need it to have a functioning OS for her to use it. >> I probably know how to do this, but never have needed to do it. Can anyone >> offer the steps? >> Thanks, >> Bill Micou >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
