AmesMUG: How to clean a hard drive?

[John Rearick]

If you want to make sure all the data on the drive is destroyed, you  
can use the original system cd to wipe the hard disk.  Insert the  
disk and hold the C key until it starts booting from the CD.  Find  
the program Disk Setup and reformat the disk with the option of Zero  
all data or write zeros.  This will take a while to complete.  Once  
it's reformatted, you can install the operating system and it should  
be ready to go.  These steps are a very brief overview, since I don't  
have an older machine to recall the exact steps.

John

On Jul 16, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Bob & Deb Anders wrote:

> Hey, it's Deb here with the old Performa 6360 I want to take to  
> Goodwill.
>
> Shouldn't I clean the Hard drive first? I have the original CD's  
> with the software.
>
> It mentions in the book several things I might do, one of which is  
> to initialize the Hard drive.
>
> Should I initialize it at all, and if so, do I do this before re- 
> installing the "software"?
>
> All of this scares me a bit, but why should I care if I'm giving it  
> away?
>
> I wish I knew someone who would want this bundle of stuff,  
> including a monitor, 11X14 scanner, zip drive, etc. It all works  
> together as a unit and seems kinda too bad to just dump it, even  
> though it's SCSI, old and slow.....
>
> But seriously, what about re-installing, "cleaning",  
> initializing??? Any advice?
>
> THANKS!     Deb Anders-Bond
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