OS X :: How To Erase Hard Drive (Private Data)

Jun 4, 2010

I have a mac I want to sell. How can I be sure that all of my private data is completely erased? Does a fresh install (complete) of OS X work?

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OS X :: How To Erase Data From Hard Drive? - Dish Network HD DVR

Apr 4, 2010

Very new wth mac. Got my first power mac G5 running OS x 10.5.8. I want to add second hard drive. I took the 320GB hard drive out of my Dish Network HD DVR receiver. Tried to erase the data from the drive by using Disk Utility and did not go through. It detect the drive but show 0 byte. Does anyone know what can I do?

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Applications :: Erase Private Browsing On Safari

Jun 7, 2010

I've noticed that my kids have been using private browsing a lot lately and i don't like that, I want to know if there's any way to take it off the menu, that and the ''view all history'' button, because they can also erase sites seen there. I tried xcode, but after downleading a Safari 4.0.5 I can't use it anymore, look: Xcode doesn't work with Firefox either and I don't know what to do.

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MacBook Pro :: Private Folder Visible In Hard Drive Root?

Feb 8, 2009

For some reason this is now visible in my hard drive's root. How do I hide it again? I don't wanna go near that thing!

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Hardware :: Recover Data From Dead Lacie Hard Drive / Unable To Mount Hard Drive

Sep 6, 2009

Today I went to plug in my Lacie 250 GB USB external hard drive into my 13 in. MacBook to get a shirt template for a design I am making. I discovered that the hard drive just would not mount and show on the desktop, and I remembered that this happened a few days before, but all I did was unplug it and plug it back in, and it worked... except that today, that didn't work at all. I tried the other USB port, and the hard drive showed up on the desktop for about a second, and then disappeared. I kept on replugging it back into both USB ports, but nothing happened.

Then I tried to see if it would work on the PC beside me, and it was recognized as an external device; however, a message came up telling me the drive was malfunctioning. I am guessing this is from ejecting it incorrectly (because I am in a hurry to head to my next classes...I use this laptop at school), but I have incorrectly disconnected it before in the past and this problem never happened to me before.

Every single project I have ever created for my design career is on that hard drive, and all I want now is to get my files back. All I need it to do is show up on the desktop for just the right amount of time for me to copy my files onto my computer.

I read online to put it into the freezer for a while and it should mount, but that didn't work. I tried using Disk Warrior, Data Rescue 3, and Tech Tool Deluxe, but the hard drive did not show up on any of those apps.I tried plugging the hard drive into an iMac as well, but it did not show up either.

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MacBook Pro :: Lost Data From Broken Hard Drive / How To Retrieve Data

Dec 10, 2014

I have lost all my data from my harts drive. The laptop is under warranty. I have been told that they have replaced my hard drive but could not get any data off the old one. I have now lost all my data, photos, files, music etc. NO backups, only simply because i did not know how to do them. Is there any way of getting the files back? All my work spreadsheets and accounts were also lost.

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012)

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OS X :: How To Securely Erase Mac Hard Drive

Jun 6, 2006

I am going to be selling my trusty 12" PowerBook G4 to a friend soon, and putting the money I get from that towards a last revision 15" PowerBook G4. After I transfer my data from the 12" to the 15", I want to completely and securely erase my hard drive. The thing is, I don't know how to do this! I've never formatted/erased a hard drive before.

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OS X :: External Hard Drive Won't Erase?

Sep 1, 2009

I am using a macbook with an Intel Core 2 Duo (about two years old) and I am running leopard (10.5.8).

I have been using a Western Digital 250GB External Hard Drive with a firewire connection to utilize Time Machine for the past 6 months. All was going reasonably well until recently. (It would occasionally get stuck backing up and I would have to restart my computer and then backup again, but otherwise ok)

Last week I turned my computer on and it didn't recognize the drive. It gave me the "Initialize" "Ignore" option screen. I tried everything before I tried erasing it, but eventually I decided to lose all of that backed up data and just erase the drive and start from scratch. (I backed up on a different drive prior to trying this.)

Anyway, now when I go into Disk Utility and click on the Erase tab and then try to erase the drive (doesn't matter which erase option I choose) it says it is unable to erase the drive. If it is plugged in w/the Firewire cable then it gives me an "Invalid Argument" error. If it is plugged in with the USB cable, it gives me a input/output failure error.

Does anyone know if I can fix this drive? Any ideas as to what may have caused the problem in the 1st place. Months ago I accidently unplugged the drive without ejecting, but it worked for for a long time after that.

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OS X :: How To Erase Hard Drive Without Install DVD

Oct 29, 2009

I'm in a bind. I want to sell my MacBook Pro, but my dad threw away the installation DVDs that would allow me to erase the hard drive. What's the best option here? I was thinking that I could purchase the upgrade version of Leopard on Ebay since it's cheaper than the full version of snow leopard... but would that allow me to erase the hard drive?

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MacBook Pro :: How To Erase Hard Drive

Jun 10, 2010

Is there anyway to erase my hard drive on my old broken mbp? (fried logic board) I want to sell the whole unit, but feel that the only thing i could do is take out the hard drive and sell everything else. Id prefer to not have to dismantle my mbp as it is somewhat time consuming. Is there a way to erase it within the mac?

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MacBook :: How To Erase The Hard-drive

Jun 28, 2012

How do I erase my hard drive? In Utility>Disk Utility, but the only option highlighted is "Erase Free Space".  

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MacBook (13-inch Mid 2007), Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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MacBook Pro :: Any Other Reason To Erase Hard Drive?

Jul 7, 2010

Is there any reason to erase hard drive and do a new install other than selling mac or new os?

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Erase A Hard Drive From Within The System Itself?

Feb 1, 2012

I want to erase everything on my hard drive as I want to give it away to someone. It has Lion on it.  

I tried to erase using Disk Utility but the disks were grayed out. I have saved all the data on another disk so I can completely erase the drive.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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EMac :: How To Erase Hard Drive For Recycling

Mar 5, 2012

If Apple erases the hard drive for you when you recycle an old emac with them or must I do it myself. How is this done?

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eMac (ATI Graphics), Mac OS X (10.3.x)

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Power Mac :: Trying To Erase And Partition Hard Drive Of G5?

Mar 25, 2012

I can't seem to find any instructions online about how to do this, step by step. Want to make sure all personal data is erased. I'm interested in performing a full format that at the very least zeros out the data on disk.

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Power Mac G5, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook :: How To Erase External Hard Drive

Mar 28, 2012

Macbook OS X 10.5.8 and a WD 10EAVS 1TB External Hard Drive. That's all. I was given this by a fellow student on campus who was graduating. So I want to use this to store my iTunes Library (my Macbook's hard drive ran out of space). Here's what I do:

- Macbook is turned on and running

- I plug the external hard drive into a working outlet --> Hard drive turns on

- I plug the external hard drive into the mac using a USB connection --> Disk Insertion Error message: the disk you insterted was not readable by this computer

- It is not readable so I open it in Disk Utility (the hard drive is listed/recognized)

- I attempt to erase and/or partition the hard drive in order to format it in Mac OS Extended OR Mac OS Extended (Journaled), but I get one of these two messages: "Disk Erase failed with the error: File system formatter failed." OR "Disk Erase failed with the error: The underlying task reported failure on exit."

I attempted to look up what these mean or how to fix the problem but nothing is really working. I was able to format the hardware line to MS-DOS (FAT) and the sub-line as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but I don't even know if that's right or not.Basically, I need my computer to recognize this hard drive whenever I plug it in and to run smoothly as "extra space" to store my music on.I haven't had A LOT of experience with external hard drives but enough to get things done. But this problem is a killer.

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mac book, Mac OS X (10.5.6)

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Software :: Failed To Erase Hard Drive And Cannot Unmount

Sep 26, 2009

I want to carbon copy my bootable external drive to my main internal bootable hard drive so I tried to use Disk Utility to erase it but it will indicate that it failed and can't unmount. When I tried to manually unmount by dragging it to the trash it indicated that it is in use. I can't understand why it's in use since I booted from the external drive which I wanted to the copy to the internal drive.

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OS X :: Will Installing OS X Snow Leopard Erase My Hard Drive

Aug 26, 2009

When installing Snow Leopard, will it erase my hard drive and force me to start all over or will it just update the software and keep everything the way it is on my Mac now?

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Software :: Time Machine Tried To Erase Hard Drive

Apr 13, 2010

I recently had a problem with bootcamp so I tried to use time machine to backup my Macbook Pro. However it made an attempt to erase my HD so I immediately pulled out the cables and shutdown the program. However my disk is now "not readable by this computer" I have attempted a rebuild with diskwarrior but with no success. How to get my disk working again without having to format it?

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Intel Mac :: Can Erase One Volume On Hard Drive Without Affecting The Others

Mar 23, 2012

I have my external HDD partitioned for my Media storage and for Time Machine. Unfortunately, my mac is having problems and I want to back up my computer to reinstall Lion. Problem is...Time Machine is also not backing up anymore (last backup was 2 months ago). So I want to erase the Time Machine volume of my HDD so I can use SuperDuper to backup my hard drive...but of course I don't want to erase the media partion.  So...using Disk Utility, I can just erase the Time Machine partion (volume) of the HDD and leave the Media portion intact, correct? I would hate to erase the Time Machine volume and find out the Disk Utility also erased all my music and movies too!

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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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OS X Mavericks :: Can't Erase Hard Drive Because Can't Unmounted Disk

Dec 2, 2014

Cant erase hard drive because cant "unmounted disk"...My hard drive crashed about a month ago, and i used a program called data rescue to clone hard drive. when i put it in mac it will not load. now all i want to do is erase the drive and install Yosemite as new mac. but cant install or erase the hard drive.

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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

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OS X :: How To Protect Private Data

Mar 7, 2010

I've been a PC user for 20 years, but thinking of switching to an Imac. My main concern before plunging in is with regards to data protection - particularly if I have to send the Imac in for repair. On my PC, I can control what part I want to replace, and I never send a harddrive in for repair. I'm paranoid about data privacy.

But if I buy an Imac, removing the harddrive violates the warranty. And if my Imac refuses to bootup, I can't wipe the drive before sending in for repair. Will the apple repair center be willing to remove the harddrive and return it to me before starting repair?

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OS X :: External Hard Drive And Disk Utility Erase Options

Oct 17, 2010

I have an external hard drive that was used on a PC. I want to use it on a Mac. I went into disk utility and did an erase. (Extended Journaled and in security options changed it to zero out data). I can now use it on the Mac how ever it is telling me that there is 54.1 MB of used space. I want to have access to this. How do I do it?

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Hardware :: Will Disk Utility Partitioning Erase Hard Drive?

Dec 19, 2010

I have a hard drive with about 250 gb of film and music on fbut it's formatted as HFS+ which windows cant read! I need to partition the drive to make windows be able to read at least a portion of it. But If I run disk utility and create a partition will it erase the info I already have on there? I don't have this data else where so I hope it wont!

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OS X :: 7 Pass Secure Erase - Good Enough To Return Hard Drive?

Jan 16, 2009

So I may have one of the Seagate hard drives that are failing badly. Haven't heard back from Seagate to see if my drive and firmware is bad, but since I just bought the drive, I'm thinking of returning it.I'm in the middle of a 7 Pass Secure erase on it (1TB). Do people feel comfortable returning a drive after doing that erase? Or should I just forget about it and destroy the drive and chalk it up to a loss?

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MacBook Pro :: Hard Drive Space - 216 GB Left After Erase / Install

Aug 17, 2009

I just received my new MacBook Pro. It came with 250 gb of hd space. I had to do an erase and install on it because of an issue that came up while using the migrant assistant. So, after doing the erase/install it says that I only have 216 gb of space left? And thats without the applications CD that I have to put in which will be about 4 gb. I believe when I first turned the computer on before doing the erase/install it had about 235?

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MacBook Pro :: ReFormat Hard Drive Partition - Erase SSD Side?

Aug 14, 2010

I have the Seagate Momentus XT and I have a quick question. If I reformat the Hard Drive portion does that erase the SSD side as well? If not how do I erase the SSD side of it.

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Intel Mac :: Erase My Backup Files From My External Hard Drive?

Feb 26, 2012

I tried to erase my backup files from my external hard drive. Once in the trash, I cannot delete the backup.backup file.

Info:Mac OS X (10.6.7)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Stuck In Recovery Mode - Cannot Erase Hard Drive

Mar 28, 2012

I tried reformatting while running Snow Leopard, but the option was grayed out and the install disc made the computer hang at the white bootup screen. I figured I'd just upgrade to Lion and do a clean install (not an option). 

After upgrading to Lion, I booted into recovery to erase the hard drive. I did it and it took less than ten seconds (bad sign). 

Now I can't get past recovery and the hard drive is still full. 

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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7)

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OS X :: Transferring Old Hard Drive Data To New Hard Drive / Using Usb Or Firewire?

Sep 15, 2010

Had a hard drive failing/failure. I am having my bad hard drive replaced with a bigger hard drive. (New Obviously) I have an iMac. (1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 17-inch) To have my data transferred from the old drive will cost over a hundred bucks more. I am trying to save money but transferring it myself. All im looking to transfer is my photos. I did not have an external drive but i WILL purchse one now. My question, (to save some money) is how would i transfer my old pictures from my old drive, too my new installed hard drive. Can i use USB? Firewire?

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