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Secure wipe of hard drive in lion.

Koodauw

Koodauw

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I have a late 2008 MBP with OSX lion I am selling and I want to securely remove all the info on the hd. If I boot into the recover partition and do a secure erase will that be sufficient?

Or should I boot from the recovery CD and do a secure erase of both the recovery partition and the partion the os is installed on?
 
Quad5Ny

Quad5Ny

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Sep 13, 2009
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Boot off of your Leopard/Snow Leopard disc and wipe everything. You don't want to be giving away a copy of Lion that's tied to your account do you?
 
Weaselboy

Weaselboy

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A secure erase from the Recovery Partition will do what you need. There is nothing personal left on the Recovery Partition.
 
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