aemsee Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 Selling my Macbook (core 2 duo w/ Tiger OS) and want to reformat the HD before it gets shipped. I have the system discs that came with it. Any tricks to doing this? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aemsee Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 Selling my Macbook (core 2 duo w/ Tiger OS) and want to reformat the HD before it gets shipped. I have the system discs that came with it. Any tricks to doing this? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 High powered electric magnet? Oh... I suppose you might want it to still work, eh? I've never done it on a mac, but with windows, starting with 2000, you could always boot from the OS disc and everything you needed would be on there. Option to reformat before installation was always there. I'd imagine you could do the same thing on a mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geonovast Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 High powered electric magnet? Oh... I suppose you might want it to still work, eh? I've never done it on a mac, but with windows, starting with 2000, you could always boot from the OS disc and everything you needed would be on there. Option to reformat before installation was always there. I'd imagine you could do the same thing on a mac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sam Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 insert disk into drive restart hold down "C" key to boot from CD after it starts up select the language then goto the menu bar, utilities, disk utility, select your hard drive, then hit the "erase" button, at the bottom you will see a "security options" button. click that and then select "zero out data" once thats done you can reinstall the OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sam Posted December 14, 2008 Share Posted December 14, 2008 insert disk into drive restart hold down "C" key to boot from CD after it starts up select the language then goto the menu bar, utilities, disk utility, select your hard drive, then hit the "erase" button, at the bottom you will see a "security options" button. click that and then select "zero out data" once thats done you can reinstall the OS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aemsee Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 All done. piece of cake. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aemsee Posted December 14, 2008 Author Share Posted December 14, 2008 All done. piece of cake. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sam Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 All done. piece of cake. Thanks np Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sam Posted December 15, 2008 Share Posted December 15, 2008 All done. piece of cake. Thanks np Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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