I just bought my first Mac!!

[skygazer]

I just bought a Macbook - I'm so excited! I've been wanting one forever! :party: :bounce: :bounce: :party:


So does anyone know how I can purge all my files from my old laptop so I can sell it without worrying that someone will be able to access them somehow?

[Resuscitated Ethics]

1. wipe drive

from tucows is one option
http://www.tucows.com/download.html?software_id=301874&t=2

No 100% security without physical destruction

[formercia]

2. Mark I hammer.

Keep your sensitive information on a solid-state drive. Once erased, there is no data latency that I know of.

[hunter]

3. Oh. I thought maybe you were talking about a Big Mac.

http://www.mcdonalds.com/corp/about/mcd_history_pg1/mcd_history_pg3.html

Don't eat too many of them!

:silly:

[NJmaverick]

4. I bought a BIG Mac, it was yummy AND something more useful than a dumb joke

http://www.killdisk.com/

[Bake]

5. Good for you.

Now you can feel superior to the rest of us lowly PC-users.

:rofl:

Bake

[MilesColtrane]

6. I just sent my Dad's old PC off to be recycled.

I used Darik's Boot and Nuke to erase it's disk.


http://www.dban.org/

[lizziegrace]

7. I got rid of an old PC that had client files on it

I saved the returns as PDFs and burned them on a cd I keep locked up. I took out the hard drive and locked it up too. Since there was no way to completely remove sensitive data, I kept the hard drive.

Oh, a hammer and a few nails driven into the HD is an option too...

:)

[jmowreader]

8. I would just replace the hard drive

Depending on how big your old machine's hard drive is, you might be able to install it in an external case and use it as a Time Machine backup drive or something. (My tower died recently and I replaced it with a white MacBook. The tower contained a 160GB drive; the MacBook contains a 120, so I copied everything off the drive to my MacBook, repartitioned it with a 120GB main partition, and now have automatic, effortless backups.