I have a MacBook Pro and am going to sell it to upgrade to one of the newer MacBook Pro's. What is the best way to securely erase it before selling it? I have a lot of work data that I don't want to chance anyone being able to recover. In the past I had a windows program which conformed to DOD security for erasing. Is there anything like that I can do to securely erase my mac hard drive?
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This is for 10.4 but it's still relevant in 10.5.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1011.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303462
Boot off of the installer DVD and use Disk Utilty there. Remember that your level of paranoia means a much longer time waiting for the erase to complete.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=DiskUtility/10.5/en/duh1011.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303462
Boot off of the installer DVD and use Disk Utilty there. Remember that your level of paranoia means a much longer time waiting for the erase to complete.