Cleaning the Mac

[hertinkness]

After getting my nice shiny MacBook fixed, I'm pretty confident that it's not going to break again. So, I've decided to get rid of my old iBook G4 by cleaning it up and giving it to my parents. I have all the software they would need for it, and I would install it and register it all for them, but first I'd like to erase the hard drive so that they can start fresh.

I'm a bit of a newbie at this- has anyone had any experience with refurbishing an old iBook? How did you do it? What should I watch out for?

Thanks!

Comments

[green-knight.livejournal.com]

If they're your parents, and if you trust them, I'd simply reformat the hard drive and do a clean install.

It's not the ultimate in security, as some data survives the process, and someone with appropriate technical skill and applications can recover the data - but if you trust your parents not to send your laptop to a specialist recovery company so they can snoop around in your super sekrit files, a simple format will be enough.

Apple's own Drive Setup utility does a good enough job; it's always worked for me.

[angry-geologist.livejournal.com]

That's what I ended up doing- it seems to have worked.