Timeline for Selling my broken Macbook. How to make sure there's no personal information on the hard drive?
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| Jul 21, 2013 at 23:33 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/askdifferent/status/359093833990029313 | ||
| Jul 17, 2013 at 21:23 | comment | added | athena | → Ashley: good point. And if the disk is the failure point bend it with pliers at the central axe level. | |
| Jul 17, 2013 at 21:18 | answer | added | athena | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 17:34 | comment | added | Gordon Davisson | Does "won't turn on" mean it doesn't power up, or doesn't boot, or...? | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 17:02 | comment | added | Mattie | What @Ashley said. If you want to sell it with the drive, you could try connecting the drive to another machine temporarily. On the other hand, if you used FileVault 2, you may not have to worry at all—just don't supply your password. | |
| S Jul 9, 2013 at 16:31 | history | suggested | Chris W. Rea | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 14:03 | comment | added | Ashley | Sell it without the hard drive? | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 12:13 | comment | added | lhf | You could try booting it in Target Mode and then erase the disk from another machine. But that assumes it does at least turn on... | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 11:44 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jul 9, 2013 at 11:28 | answer | added | Maximus | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 11:25 | history | asked | Dany | CC BY-SA 3.0 |