I am getting rid of my old imac - runs on OS9. Can anyone help me out with a step by step guide of how to clean it of personal data before I ger rid of it?
Also - what is the best thing to do with it? Dump it? Recyle?
Thank you both for your advice - that's really helpful.
In the meantime I have bought a memory stick to transfer files. I put it ion and transferred a folder, then got repeated messages saying something was wrong and that data may be lost. Yep - a whole folder of my work has disappeared. I am now scared to put anything else on it. Is this the stick or the mac. I am inclined to think the latter as nothing on it seems to work these days. How am I going to get my info onto the new computer?/??
Thanks
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I'm only partially kidding...if you're going to toss the computer anyway, take a sledgehammer to the drive.
Boot from the System disk that came with the computer, do an erase and install.
NEVER use "move" on important files. ALWAYS use copy and then delete the original files.