David J Brooks 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.
You might be able to boot it using an external drive and holding the
option key as you power it up.
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
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