Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 5:16 PM, John wrote: > > That depends on what the recycle program entails. > > If it's just meant to make sure the metals & plastics get re-used rather > than ending up in a landfill, just take a hack saw to it. Yes thats the case here and a crow

Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

On 5/9/2018 07:49, David J Brooks 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

Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

Sledge Hammer. On 5/9/2018 7:49 AM, David J Brooks 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

Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

thanks not sure if i still have a CD but I'll look Dave On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 6:24 PM, steve harley wrote: > On 2018-05-9 14:37, Larry Colen wrote: >> >> You might be able to boot it using an external drive and holding the >> option key as you power it up. > > > first i'd

Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

On 2018-05-9 14:37, Larry Colen wrote: You might be able to boot it using an external drive and holding the option key as you power it up. first i'd try holding shift as it boots, until after the Apple logo appears — this will disable third party extensions that may be causing it to hang on

Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

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.

Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

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 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

Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

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 wrote: > If it's like my 12" G4 Powerbook, no quick

Re: OT iBook G4 to recycle

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

OT iBook G4 to recycle

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 --