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completely wiping an apple

joeyjojo Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 3:57pm
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how do you completely wipe an apple of everything... as if it had just come out of the box...
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project skoolyard Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 4:08pm
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the apple discs that come with it?
done it to my g4...
joeyjojo Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 4:31pm
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so you put them in and ?
i dont wanna restart it i wanna wipe so when i sell it the next user can restart it...
andymakesglasses Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 5:24pm
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put the original disc 1 in the drive, hold down C as it starts up - once you see a grey box with an Apple in it you can let go of C

it should then give you various options including Erase and Restore

obviously make sure you have backed up anything you need on an external hard drive Eye-wink
joeyjojo Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 6:52pm
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i do that but it just comes up with install OS again. its panther btw
joeyjojo Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 7:05pm
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i managed to do it using disc utility.
is that all my stuff gone then? now way to get it back? no way for a future user to find out any of my details or anything?
Ruben Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 7:13pm

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Stanleyboy Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 7:37pm
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Laughing out loud
subfunktion Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 9:14pm
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A standard wipe clean will probably mean that files are recoverable... something like disk warrior http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html should be able to pick recover files.

I'm sure the mac os help tells you how to completely hard erase shit, not handy if you've wiped the os of the computer though. Puzzled Laughing out loud
El Bongo Posted: Sat, 15/11/2008 - 11:53pm

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I use killdisk to completely erase, works perfect.
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