thanks Bruce It does not boot up it just gives me a blue face similar to the finder icon. Nothing on it to secure but you never know. Might just do the drill trick.
Dave On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:21 AM, Bruce Walker <bruce.wal...@gmail.com> wrote: > If it's like my 12" G4 Powerbook, no quick way. That design buried the HDD > inside requiring much disassembly to reach. > > If you can get it booted from an old Mac OS X DVD you can use the Format > app to do a security format where it overwrites the entire disk with > several passes of data patterns designed to make it _really_ hard to > recover anything. It's good enough unless you have The Secrets To World > Domination on there and the Illuminati are after you for them. > > If not bootable, you could drill a hole or three right through the case and > the drive to render it inoperable. You should be able to locate the drive's > position from that online video. > > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 7:49 AM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> My old G4 has not worked for a while, its old and slow so i'm going to >> take it the town s bi yearly recycle program but want the HD removed >> fro security reasons. The online videos on how to do this say it could >> take up to an hour or more. Any other way just to get it out faster >> >> Dave >> >> -- >> Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. >> www.caughtinmotion.com >> http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ >> York Region, Ontario, Canada >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > -bmw > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
