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jrsl76 Senior Member Perfection 4024 Posts 8/07	Posted - Apr 2 2009 : 11:58PM I'm looking to totally wipe all my on and offline computer use from my laptop and I'm trying to find a program for Mac to do this. One with a free trial would be great (I'd buy if it truly works). The problem (as always) - everything I find is for PC. The consumer report I have found which indicates which ones work, only shows ones that are PC. Can anyone help? Thanks. Consumer report I looked at Edited by - jrsl76 on Apr 3 2009 [Link]
ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03	Posted - Apr 3 2009 : 12:49AM i've been told that you can just reinstall the OS from it's original dvds and it should wipe everything off. If you do that several times that would be good, too. Or that's at least what I read on a Mac forum. I can't remember exactly which one. [Link]
BadKarma Member 110 Posts 11/00	Posted - Apr 6 2009 : 12:12AM jrsl76 wrote: I'm looking to totally wipe all my on and offline computer use from my laptop and I'm trying to find a program for Mac to do this. One with a free trial would be great (I'd buy if it truly works). The problem (as always) - everything I find is for PC. The consumer report I have found which indicates which ones work, only shows ones that are PC. Can anyone help? Thanks. Click to expand There are multiple ways to do this on a Mac. Question: is the Mac you want to wipe Intel based or PowerPC based? This answer affects the number of options at your disposal. Probably the easiest way, which will work on any Mac, is to boot from the OS X DVD that came with your Mac. I assume you still have it or can find it. Once booted from the DVD, OS X will assume you want to reinstall or add new software from the DVD. During the install process you can quit out of install and run Disk Utility. In Disk Utility you can select the Mac disk you want to erase ( be careful, select the CORRECT disk if you have more than 1). Once you select a disk you can select 'erase' in disk utility. Then you can select 'security options' which will allow you to write zeros on every byte on the disk multiple times. I think 35 times is the upper limit, which I believe passes NSA security standards. Note that more passes require progressively more time to complete. With a large disk 35 passes can take a really looong time! BE CAREFUL. ONCE YOU DO THIS THERE IS NO WAY TO RESTORE ANYTHING. PERIOD. THE ONLY OPTION IS A COMPLETE REINSTALL OF OS X. IF you can't find / don't have an OS X install DVD (which came with the Mac), then the other options become boot the laptop in target mode and address it from another Mac, or make a Linux boot CD/DVD and boot from that. -- hope this helps [Link]
ChodeMasterJ Perpetual Marxist 5405 Posts 4/03	Posted - Apr 6 2009 : 1:52AM ^ that's along the lines of what i remember reading. thanks. [Link]
Tech Member Make me a bicycle Clown !!! 35 Posts 4/08	Posted - Apr 23 2009 : 2:43PM BadKarma wrote: jrsl76 wrote: I'm looking to totally wipe all my on and offline computer use from my laptop and I'm trying to find a program for Mac to do this. One with a free trial would be great (I'd buy if it truly works). The problem (as always) - everything I find is for PC. The consumer report I have found which indicates which ones work, only shows ones that are PC. Can anyone help? Thanks. Click to expand There are multiple ways to do this on a Mac. Question: is the Mac you want to wipe Intel based or PowerPC based? This answer affects the number of options at your disposal. Probably the easiest way, which will work on any Mac, is to boot from the OS X DVD that came with your Mac. I assume you still have it or can find it. Once booted from the DVD, OS X will assume you want to reinstall or add new software from the DVD. During the install process you can quit out of install and run Disk Utility. In Disk Utility you can select the Mac disk you want to erase ( be careful, select the CORRECT disk if you have more than 1). Once you select a disk you can select 'erase' in disk utility. Then you can select 'security options' which will allow you to write zeros on every byte on the disk multiple times. I think 35 times is the upper limit, which I believe passes NSA security standards. Note that more passes require progressively more time to complete. With a large disk 35 passes can take a really looong time! BE CAREFUL. ONCE YOU DO THIS THERE IS NO WAY TO RESTORE ANYTHING. PERIOD. THE ONLY OPTION IS A COMPLETE REINSTALL OF OS X. IF you can't find / don't have an OS X install DVD (which came with the Mac), then the other options become boot the laptop in target mode and address it from another Mac, or make a Linux boot CD/DVD and boot from that. -- hope this helps Click to expand That's the best way 35pass wipe...can take days on huge hard drives...but there is no more secure erase. [Link]

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