I recently purchased a new PC and want to trade in my Intel Core 2 Duo iMac. I'm uneasy about sending it in without first completely wiping the hard drive but I am having a bit of an issue.
For the last few months my iMac has been running extremely slow. I see the rainbow wheel of death more often than I see the mouse pointer. After replacing the RAM the problem still remained so I am pretty sure my HDD is failing.
The only way I know how to erase the HDD is to boot from the Mac OS X Snow Leopard disc and use Disk Utility from there. However, when it brings up the list of disks, all it shows is my SuperDrive and the Snow Leopard installation DVD. It doesn't have C:/ drive or Macintosh HD isn't listed anywhere. It does the same thing if I simply try reinstalling Snow Leopard.
Please help
For the last few months my iMac has been running extremely slow. I see the rainbow wheel of death more often than I see the mouse pointer. After replacing the RAM the problem still remained so I am pretty sure my HDD is failing.
The only way I know how to erase the HDD is to boot from the Mac OS X Snow Leopard disc and use Disk Utility from there. However, when it brings up the list of disks, all it shows is my SuperDrive and the Snow Leopard installation DVD. It doesn't have C:/ drive or Macintosh HD isn't listed anywhere. It does the same thing if I simply try reinstalling Snow Leopard.
Please help