By whiping, I mean, once you've backed up all your data, put the original disk taht came with the mac in, and completely format the hard drive. put the disk in and reboot your mac holding down the c key until the disk begins to wurr On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Donna Goodin wrote:
> Hey Cody, > > Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how does one "wipe" the hard disk? I > checked in finder, but saw no command for doing this. Should I just do one > huge send to trash? > Thanks, > Donna > > On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Cody wrote: > >> Donna, if you whipe the drive and reinstall OSX 10, you should be fine. this >> way you wont' have tow orry about removing your data by hand... >> On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> If I can ever get my data over to the MBA, I'm going to be selling my MBP. >>> In preparation for that, I'm wondering about the most efficacious way to >>> remove my data from the MBP. Of course I can just delete things like >>> documents, but I want to make sure that all my user info is also gone >>> before I send it to someone else. Can anyone advise on this? >>> Thanks, >>> Donna >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
