![]() ![]() ![]() Have been glued to Game of Thrones far too much recently. Hi HD Holly, I will have to look out Revenge, yet to catch it but does look good. Prob best not to dump in trash as there is some legislation etc about electrical items being disposed of. If it's still working then could get rid of it on Ebay or Freecycle if feeling particularly generous. Each option takes a certain amount of time, but as it's an old HD that's not really an issue - if it was my old drive I'd probably use Option 2 or 3 depending on what it had on it before. Fourth option is pretty crazy - does the same as option 2 but 35 times. ![]() Third option is reaching Department of Defense standard - repeats the same process as option 2 but does it 7 times and is therefore a lot stronger. Second option is not bad, writes 0 over the entire drive - although this could still be recovered by a concerted hacker. So someone with any recovery software could access the information. Don't Erase Data Zero Out Data 7-Pass Erase 35-Pass Erase First one is not much use - it wipes the drive (so it would appear blank) but the actual files are not removed until the drive is reused. Select the old Firewire HD and choose Secure Erase. Perfect - plug old HD into old Mac, go to Macintosh HD->Disk Utility. Yes - is just a kind of sync mechanism/control between the computer and HD.
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