Need to erase old Mac harddrive

[tamtam]

We have an old Mac Quadra 650 at our company that we are going to sell. Before we sell it, we want to erase the harddrive so that all of the content is completely gone (i.e. gov't level erasing). What is the best way to do this? Is there disk erasing software that works on macs? Can anyone recommend something?

 

[jimbopalmer]

in a SCSI drive like the 650, you have 2 options (try both?)

there is a Apple supplied utility on the OS CD called Drive Setup

in its menu are intitailization options one is to write all zeros to the drive (this would work with IDE as well) the other is to Low Level Format (SCSI only) both should totally destroy old data

should selling not work out:

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[PTmon]

Norton utilities has a disk erasing utility that will wipe the drive, and make the contents unrecoverable. It does take a while to run though. Norton Utilites is worthwhile having for system 9.x anway, so it's probably worth the investment. If not, filling the drive with large amounts of extraneous data and reformatting several time would also do the trick, although that would be even more time consuming.
Best of luck,
PT

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[jimbopalmer]

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