Need to wipe clean my hard drive to give my old mac to my daughter how do i do that

Would like to wipe my hard drive clean as to give my old mac book pro to my daughter

Follow these guidelines:
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/
Ciao.

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  • I need to locate my external hard drive

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  • I need to get a new hard drive for my 13" mid-2009 MBP but the model number is worn off. Is there a place to find this?

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  • Do I need to use all the hard drive for time machine or can I partition it

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  • I perviously transfered all my iTunes music to an external hard drive. But now when I connect the external hard drive and try to play a song, I get an error message saying that I need to "locate" my music. I don't how to find it on my external hard drive.

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