Hi Paul, If you wish to securely wipe your drive then you are best to start the machine up from a USB or DVD installation disk then run disk utilities from that USB or dvd media then secure wipe the machines internal drive And once that is done install the OS to a basic installation and I would stop at the point where you get asked for the country
This being the point the new user would start the machines setup from. The reason behind the secure boot from external media is because you can't secure wipe a drive you are running from. Good luck. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Hopewell Sent: Thursday, 1 March 2018 12:03 AM To: macvisionaries <[email protected]> Subject: Preparing a Mac for disposal Hi Andrew and Nickus, Many thanks for your help. I hope to sell or give away the old Mac but if no one wants it I will have it recycled. I am a bit paranoid about security and so want to be sure that all my private data is really gone before moving the Mac on. So can I use the disk utility part of the recovery manager to securely erase my hard disk and then use the Install Mac OS part of the recovery manager to re-install El Capitan? Or if I just use the Install Mac OS part of the recovery manager does that also reformat my hard disk so that I do not need to use the disk utility? Best regards… Paul Hopewell -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
