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wrx07

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Oct 5, 2007
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I booted from the startup DVD and am running Disk Utility on the macbook I am selling to someone. I selected the drive and am dong a 7-pass erase on it. Is there anything else I need to do to make it so my information cannot be stolen?

When I am done erasing, do I install the operating system for the new user (doesn't that ask me to register, though)...? So basically how do I make it so its like it just came out of the factory?
 
If memory serves, if you do a restore but don't actually log in, it'll be in pretty much the factory state--it doesn't ask for the registration information until you first log in after booting from the clean install.
 
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