How do I wipe my iBook g4?

How do I wipe my iBook g4?

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1. get a firewire cable.
2. connect iBook to your Mac via FW.
3. start up the iBook and press and hold T on its keyboard.
4. On your Mac, go to DIsk Utility under Appplications >> Utilities.
5. Find the disk.
6. Erase it.
7. Done – this will make the HDD clean with no OS.

How do you delete Ibooks?

How to delete books, audiobooks, or PDFs from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

1. Tap Library, then find the item.
2. Tap Edit in the upper-right corner.
3. Tap the item you want to remove, then tap the Trash icon .
4. To remove the item from your device, choose Remove Download.

How do you wipe a Mac PowerBook?

Start your PowerBook from the CD and select “Disk Utility” from the “Installer” menu. Using Disk Utility, select the appropriate drive, click the “Erase” tab, click the “Options” button and use the “8 Way Random Write Format” method. Like the secure methods in MacOS X 10.4 “Tiger”, this will take many hours.

How do I restore my iMac g4 to factory settings?

Answer: A: Insert the install disk and hold down the C key while booting up. You should be booting into the CD. Once past the first screen, go to Utilities in the upper menu bar, choose to erase the disk using Disk Utility and, when done, let it reinstall the OS.

How to securely delete user files in OS X?

Use srm (secure removal of files/directories) to securely delete the User folder with your personal data. srm has been in OS X since 2004 so it’s included with Tiger.

How to delete all user data on an old iBook?

I have an old iBook (Model A1007) that I would like to donate, but first I need to delete all of the last user’s data so that it is not recoverable. With Windows machines, I usually do this by running a live Linux USB or CD and then using the “shred” tool to overwrite the hard drive some number of times with random data.

What’s the best way to wipe a hard drive?

This is the ‘alternate’ image, which should allow you to boot a bit faster on low-memory machines and has a few extra tools to allow you to wipe the disk (I’d suggest just writing zeroes to the whole thing, or if you are paranoid use /dev/urandom and write that to the /dev/hda or /dev/sda).

Is there a way to boot an old iBook?

You need to boot the iBook from supported boot media (like a compatible or retail PPC Mac OS X installer CD or DVD) to do this. Another way is using PPC compatible Linux, but an older version for the G4 CPU. Ubuntu 9.x is a good candidate, as is YellowDog Linux.