How to get HDDERASE to work on MacBook Pro Unibody?

[steffi]

So perhaps the NVidia compatibility issue affects HDDERASE also? Since when booting from UBCD 4 or 5 it just hangs after selecting it from the menu. All I get is a flashing cursor.

 

[Eddyisgreat]

Why not use the secure erase function offered by the disk utility. It should be on your OS X install cd if you don't have another installation available.

 

[steffi]

Secure Erase is a misleading term. It's not sufficient to write just zero's or 7 times etc. I'm looking to run HDDERASE which implements my SSD's secure erase command that clears out a lot more information necessary to restore the drive to a fresh "New" state.

Why not use the secure erase function offered by the disk utility. It should be on your OS X install cd if you don't have another installation available.

 

[Maximus434]

Bump. I would appreciate a response to this - I need to sanitary erase my Vertex SSD to factory fresh state - OCZ have a utility to do it but it's windows only. I don't want to have to take the drive out of my MBP...

 

[steffi]

HDDERASE is not possible on Mac hardware as their EFI bios blocks the use of the ATI security command set.

Bump. I would appreciate a response to this - I need to sanitary erase my Vertex SSD to factory fresh state - OCZ have a utility to do it but it's windows only. I don't want to have to take the drive out of my MBP...