Thanks all! I went with the option of creating a new user, making it an admin acct., changing previous admin to standard, and then deleting it. Fresh laptop. I'm not worried about scrubbing the hd completely- this was my step-daughter's from high school 7 years ago. Thanks again! Bill
> On Jan 1, 2017, at 7:52 PM, Chris Denny <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
