looks like its located in the lower left quarter of the iBook. Good place to start.
Dave On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 8:56 AM, David J Brooks <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>> [email protected] >>> 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 >> [email protected] >> 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 -- Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ York Region, Ontario, Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
