Is there a way to flush my hard drive of all info but keep the OS?
Hey Apple Forums, I'm new here so pardon any mistakes that I may make along the way.
So I've got a very old iMac PowerPC G4 that I've been wanting to get rid of for a while. It's got 384 MB of RAM and a 700Mhz Processor, along with what I believe is a 50Gb Hard Drive (I haven't found a way to check for sure). It's running Mac OS X 10.2.8. So here's my question. Is there a way to totally flush the hard drive (or reformat it) to get rid of any sensitive data, but then be able to install or keep the OS files and get it running again? I'm not sure if it even came with an installation disk, but by now it's long gone. Feel free to ask me any questions if you need to know more or give me any tips or advise.
Thanks,
Lopesian
All Macs are supposed to come with installation discs from Apple, until July 20, 2011. Sadly finding the original discs for that Mac is going to prove a bit of a chore. You can do much of what you want by simply creating a new user account through Apple menu -> System Preferences -> Accounts, and deleting the old account. I do highly recommend backing up your old data elsewhere. See my backup FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
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