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 bar and drill bit wreaked
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 jus
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 more
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 try holding shift as i
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
b
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.
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 never know. Might just
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 way. That design buried the
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 desig
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
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