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| 214531 | 2004-02-11 03:06:00 | At my work we have a lot of Apple Macintoshes that need their hard drives scrubbed/sanitised. They're mainly running MacOS 6 and above (no Mac G3 or G4's though). Does anyone know a good utility that we can use to scrub the hrad drives clean? Thanks, Wintertide |
wintertide (1306) | ||
| 214532 | 2004-02-11 04:24:00 | I assume you mean OS 8 0r 8.6 Drive setup is located in the Utilities folder on the Hard Disk or in the Restore CD that came withthe computer Double-click on the 'Drive Setup' icon you located. Select the 'Functions' pull-down menu and then choose 'Initialization options...' Click to place a check mark in front of 'zero all data' and then press the 'OK' button. Select your hard disk from the 'list of drives . Click the 'Initialize' button. On the next window, there will be another 'Initialize' button. Click it to begin the erase procedure. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 214533 | 2004-02-11 06:18:00 | Nope... sorry I do mean MacOS 6 and above... these are old school Macs - they won't run MacOS 8 and we don't have the CDs as they are donated Macs and we want to scrub the donors data off the drive... | wintertide (1306) | ||
| 214534 | 2004-02-11 10:59:00 | If that is the case then the system is probably on floppy disks, as they may not have a CD drive. If you have them you could just reinitialize the disk. If you don't have any system software you will have to be very careful what you remove. I guess they will be mainly used for word processing and you will have Clarisworks installed so go into the Clarisworks folder and delete any personal documents there. If you need the system software got to this link home.wanadoo.nl There is a link there to an apple site where you can download system 6 software and you can save it to floppy disks and do a clean install. I think you will need to be experienced with old Mac systems if you are going to do this as there could be complications. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 214535 | 2004-02-11 12:21:00 | Does killdisk work on macs? I'd be worried about data destruction advice on this forum. They all like to bash them, burn them, smash them with hammers, run over them with a steamroller etc etc. A crazy bunch eh. In this case I'm surprised they havent suggested this idea: Ok unscrew the hard drive now get a steel wool and scrub the platters with the steel wool lots of times on both sides too. Once you've done, unscew that platter and get onto the next one. You can tell its done by how many scratches there are on the platters. I remember surfing here a long time and there was a discussion going on about it. Raving lunatics they are! |
Need_Sum_Help (5199) | ||
| 214536 | 2004-02-11 19:19:00 | Well, we smash the drives that don't work with a sledgehammer until they rattle and the platters are flattened! We would also prefer not to take out the hard drives to scrub them as it will take too long (these are all in one units with CD drives). | wintertide (1306) | ||
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