How to erase harddrive

Back again, bought a new MB Air andmoved all the contents from my old MB Pro pro through timemachine with no issue (10.8.2 on both).
Now I am trying to erase all data on my old MB Pro and reinstal mountain lion (10.8.2).
Somehow the Disk Utility on the MB Pro does not offer me the option to do so.
Any suggestions?
TVMB4H

enargy wrote:
Somehow the Disk Utility on the MB Pro does not offer me the option to do so.
You have to boot from the Recovery HD partition, hold command and r keys down and boot the Mac, you'l enter it and that Disk Utiltiy you can select the Macintosh HD partition and the middle erase selection and apply.
That will secure erase your data from the hard drive with no recovery option by most people using special software.
If your data is of interest to governments or wealthy corporations etc., then use the far right secure erase option.
If you need more information in secure erase, this here is for the extermely paranoid
How do I securely delete data from the machine?

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