Hi All,
I have an upcoming appointment with a customer
who wants a number of his old computers
(mostly iMacs) removed from service.
With other computers, if I can remove the
drives, I just remove them and give them
to the customer to hit with a hammer.
But iMacs I will need a glass puller, etc..
So what I usually do when I can not get the
drive out is to boot into a Linux (Fedora)
Live USB and run
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd[x]
Where sd[x] is the drive to be blanked.
This will write 0x00H across every section
of the drive.
Then give it to the computer local charity used
computer store (or the dumpster)
"dev" only has to see the drive. I do not
need or want to be able to mount or read
the drive, just see it. dd is a block
device and does not care what format is.
Do any of you guys know if I will be able
to see the drive on a iMac?
Many thanks,
-T
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