How to format my mac 5200?
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- keiTai
Planning to throw it away but I want all my data to disappear.
How would I format c: a macintosh
- Timson0
gasoline and matches.
- Timson0
railroadtrack + train.
- chossy0
why don't you hit it with several sure and well placed blows from a hammer?. The data will yeild after this I am sure.
- ribit0
http://docs.info.apple.com/artic…
To initialize your startup disk
Start up your computer from the system software CD. Open Drive Setup, select the startup disk, and click Initialize.....you want this bit:
Open the Functions menu and choose Initialization Options. Click the "Low level format"; and "Zero all data"; checkboxes to select them.
- poomoo0
i think that even although you format a drive, the data can still be found. if you are chucking any HD away id physically destroy it.
- ribit0
realy you should low-level format and give it to charity.
save the trees, er rocks, oil or something..
- poomoo0
"realy you should low-level format and give it to charity."
aye thats all well and good untill the porn you were looking at resurfaces on the computer thats been given to a local childrens charity.
- Crouwel0
write over the data is safest.
- ribit0
"aye thats all well and good untill the porn you were looking at resurfaces on the computer thats been given to a local childrens charity."
if the kids are that good at hacking they will find the stuff elsewhwere anyway...
- poomoo0
its not the kids who will find it. it will be the police or someone who understands how to recover data.
every image you look at, no matter how you delete it can be found by police data recovery teams.
obviously the chances of this happening are pretty low but i would personally physically destroy the HDD
- chossy0
just destroy it homes it will be fun, shoot it from a home made cannon, flip it with a home made catapult thingy, torch it with a home made flame thrower, basically destroy it with a home made weapon of some sort. :D
- digilee0
... and film it!
- Crouwel0
so is it that illegal what is on there?
- radar0
you got government secrets or kiddie porn on it?
- keiTai0
no none of that. Just projectz from the past futuresplash era.
I just want to clean the thing and maybe give it away or so.
But I didn't know you could so much with an oldie.
- epill_0
kick it hard and then sprinkle some magnets all over the haard drive, then pour a cup of water in it while its plugged in then tape all the gaps tight and fill it with gasoleene when its sealed go to the tallest bridge and tie it to a rope and dangle it off the side but rebember to light it up first, it should explode before it hits the ground thus erasing the mac forever.