sold an external hard drive

clevohardcore - 11-28-2011 at 09:32 AM

and I want to make sure everything is deleted off. I clicked and dragged to the trash the items that came up. Is there any other way to access those items again? If so how do I definitely delete them for good so this hard drive is completely clean?

Its a WESTERN DIGITAL 500GB external.

XHonusWagnerX - 11-28-2011 at 09:33 AM

magnet?

lifeisabitch - 11-28-2011 at 09:56 AM

format it

BDx13 - 11-28-2011 at 10:51 AM

- attached the drive to your mac.
- launch disk utility (in applications/utilities)
- follow these instructions: http://www.macworld.com/article/158905/2011/04/howtoformathd...

JawnDiablo - 11-28-2011 at 12:41 PM

hopefully you didn't store any photos of your wang on it.

I'd say format the bitch

Discipline - 11-28-2011 at 04:33 PM

Wang pics could be a selling feature.

JawnDiablo - 11-28-2011 at 05:02 PM

it's ok...it didn't take up much space....zing!

sorry.

Discipline - 11-28-2011 at 05:38 PM

BDx13 - 11-28-2011 at 05:39 PM

HA!

SHAKO KEN - 11-28-2011 at 06:18 PM

for windows:
http://www.heidi.ie/eraser/

Six66Mike - 11-28-2011 at 08:46 PM

Magnet definitely best way to go but kinda harms the resale value by killing the drive lol.

clevohardcore - 11-28-2011 at 09:50 PM

Quote: Originally posted by BDx13

- attached the drive to your mac.
- launch disk utility (in applications/utilities)
- follow these instructions: http://www.macworld.com/article/158905/2011/04/howtoformathd...

^^^ Cool thanks BD, it worked like a charm. Now I'll ship this out tomorrow.

clevohardcore - 11-28-2011 at 09:52 PM

Quote: Originally posted by MQ74

hopefully you didn't store any photos of your wang on it.

I'd say format the bitch

^^^^^ If I took pics of my boner, the hard drive would have been disappointed.

BDx13 - 11-29-2011 at 12:05 AM

glad that worked for ya