Installed Lion now want to secure erase HD to sell mac

[feeth]

I tried installing the Safari disc that came with my mac mini, it basically said I'm not using the correct version of OS. I did make a bootable USB of Lion, installed that and it appears its now working.

My question is what if I did not make a bootable USB of Lion? How would I do a secure erase to prep the mini for sale?

TIA!

 

[johnmacward]

I tried installing the Safari disc that came with my mac mini, it basically said I'm not using the correct version of OS. I did make a bootable USB of Lion, installed that and it appears its now working.

My question is what if I did not make a bootable USB of Lion? How would I do a secure erase to prep the mini for sale?

TIA!

Number 1, whats a Safari disc?

Number 2, if you had Snow Leopard or previous disc you could use Disk Utility on them to securely erase the drive.

Number 3, if Lion came preinstalled the Recovery partition comes with Disk Utility and (I assume) it could securely erase the partition with the data on it.

 

[gentlefury]

All installs of Lion has the recovery HD...even if you upgraded from SL....no need for a disk.

 

[feeth]

Number 1, whats a Safari disc?

Number 2, if you had Snow Leopard or previous disc you could use Disk Utility on them to securely erase the drive.

Number 3, if Lion came preinstalled the Recovery partition comes with Disk Utility and (I assume) it could securely erase the partition with the data on it.

#1 is brain fart.
#2 Pretty sure I tried that, see #1.
#3 I got lion from the app store and installed it.

All installs of Lion has the recovery HD...even if you upgraded from SL....no need for a disk.

Thank you!

 

[gentlefury]

It's not visible in the OS so you can't screw it up...but you can either restart and hold opt and you will see recovery HD or you can hold cmd+r and it will automatically go into recovery.

The only thing I don't like about that idea is that its on the OS disk....so if the disk fails then you are kinda dead in the water.

 

[feeth]

It's not visible in the OS so you can't screw it up...but you can either restart and hold opt and you will see recovery HD or you can hold cmd+r and it will automatically go into recovery.

The only thing I don't like about that idea is that its on the OS disk....so if the disk fails then you are kinda dead in the water.

Thanks again!