On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Tom Chambers wrote:
> List members ;
>A friend wants to dispose of two old MACs , but is
> worried about information which may still
> be on the hard drives . Is there a way to wipe or overwrite the drives
> before dumping the machines ?
Why not just remove the drives? The older Macs, OS 9 machines, were
quite easy to get into. It would take less time to take those drives
out than to zero them out.
Steve
Tom
I just did that. Removed drives from two old PowerMacs and put a hammer
to them after leaving them outside in the 12 degree cold overnight.
Didn't bother to open the case. The way it rattles, there's a few pieces
inside. Now I can take them to the local recycle center as soon as it
warms up to freezing.
A disk recovery company can still retrieve data from a broken disk [very
difficult and time consuming], but is it likely they'd want your
friend's data? Probably not unless they're gummint computers.
BTW:
*Mac* = Apple Macintosh computer
*MAC* = Media Access Control, the lower sublayer of the OSI
data link layer, the interface between a node's Logical
Link Control and the network's physical layer. The MAC
differs for various physical media. [acronym]
Get out your ball peen hammer and whack away at the disk! A maul might
work better, but ball peen hammer is more fun.
Betty
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