Well, it breaks my heart to do this, especially to older drives that are getting harder to find, but the only sure way is to break the HD's with a hammer :(
Although, if your giving the Mac's off to charity, the charity may not like that, and in that case I would try to override all the files about 11 times, it's pretty unlikely anybody will want those files badly enough... ~A.J. Lockhart * [EMAIL PROTECTED] "When All Else Fails; Play Dead"...Red Green --- On Wed 07/06, Scott Baret < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Scott Baret [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 19:19:40 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Happy Retirement... Hi all, Well, I have some sad news. The school I've worked at for ten years has decided to get rid of every last Mac. This includes five Classics, a ton of 5200s/5400s/5500s, and some assorted Mac IIs. There's even a few iMacs going. All are going to a charity. This announcement came at a fitting time. I am going to retire in August. Even now I'm not logging summer hours like I had for the past several years. The Mac project is my final duty as a member of the IT department in which I work. Our school has been pushing us to get rid of all the Macs. Note that I'm not going to just sit at home. I'm not even AARP eligible yet. I'm just retiring from the public school and will continue to do consulting. Now for the question. Most of the older Macs work, and the ones that don't will get fixed. For years I've wiped drives of machines that are going out the door with HD SC Setup or Drive Setup. However, I took one of the drives home to use as a backup device once and just for fun scanned it with CP Undelete. A good 38% of the files were recoverable. Now I trust Dave, the man who runs the charity, but who knows who will get the Macs. Some guy who may masquerade as an underprivleged man could easily come in, get one of our Macs, and find some important school files. Keep in mind many of these were teacher computers. I no longer trust HD SC or Drive Setup to completely wipe the drives. What would be a way to completely erase these drives so some undelete utility wouldn't pick up anything from our school? Scott ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- Compact Macs is sponsored by . Support Low End Mac Compact Macs list info: --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: To unsubscribe, email: For digest mode, email: Subscription questions: Archive: --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
