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 <pentko...@gmail.com> 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 > PDML@pdml.net > 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 PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
