If you're planning to sell a Mac that boots from an SSD, or you have an old Flash drive or SSD you want securely erase, this article has the details. It's been awhile since I sold an old Mac. Regardless of your OS, you will be asked if you want to retain a copy of your iCloud data on the Mac you are working on. Mac os x sierra version number. Select 'yes' — you will be erasing the data anyway. Your data will remain in iCloud and any other devices signed into iCloud. Sign out of iMessage. If you are using OS X Mountain Lion or later, sign out of iMessage.
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Most users use Disk Utility to erase a disk or hard drive. But some Mac users might need to erase them from the command line on Mac OS. To do that, the only thing you need is a bit of precise syntax to make sure that you are erasing the proper disk.
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Here I'll show you how you can erase and format a disk using the command line.
Create a backup. Make sure that you have a current backup of your important files.
Working with Terminal
Start off by running the following command in the command line: Diskutil list Logic 9 torrent mac.
This is going to list all the mounted drives on your Mac.
Once you have found the proper drive to erase, just copy its identifier so you can use it for the next command. Then pick a name and a system format type. This is the syntax we need: Diskutil eraseDisk FILESYSTEM DISKNAME DISKIDENTIFIER
Let's say the disk I want to erase has '/dev/disk5s2' as its identifier and I'm going to use Mac OS Extended Journaled (JHFS+) as the system format type and name it 'Empty'. The syntax is going to look like this: Diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Empty /dev/disk5s2
It's important to keep in mind that if you run the eraseDisk command, the target disk is going to lose all its data, so make sure you are erasing the proper disk.
Mac lipstick numbers and names. If you need different system format types, here are a few references you could use instead of JHFS+:
- Mac OS Extended: HFS+
- MS-DOS fat32: FAT32
- ExFAT: ExFAT
Disk Utility allows wiping a Mac drive with 3 tools:
- Zeroes – Writes single pass of Zeros over the partition/disk
- 3Pass – Writes 2 passes of random data followed by single pass of known data.
- 7Pass – Considered to be ‘Most Secure', it writes over the data 7 times.
Any secondary partition or an external hard drive can be securely wiped using Disk Utility Erase function.
Disk Utility ‘Erase' vs Stellar ‘Wipe' Mac
Shortfall of Disk Utility: – Though, Disk Utility offers concrete secure wipe features, it deals with its own shortcomings. For instances, Disk Utility won't wipe Mac startup disk drive. None system can wipe its own startup drive without being booted from another media (CD, DVD or USB). A bootable media that starts the Mac system, makes itself the primary drive and Macintosh hard drive becomes secondary. When this is met, the Mac drive can be easily wiped using the boot media.
This is exactly what Stellar Wipe Mac utility offers over Disk Utility. It allows imaging of the OS X startup drive, which can be burned to a DVD. The boot DVD created can now be used to run Mac in bootable environment. In this environment, Stellar Wipe Mac is launched from the Boot DVD and enables secure wiping of the Startup disk drive.
Peter Gutmann 35 Passes
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Stellar Wipe Mac software had built-in wiping algorithms that secure wipe any Mac hard drive. Among them most prominent are:
- Peter Gutmann (35 Passes) – The most secure algorithm to wipe any HFS formatted hard drive. It overwrites data 35 times thus eradicating any chances of file recovery, even with the most powerful data recovery software. Mac's own Disk Utility does not offer it.
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- 7 Passes: Stellar Wipe Mac possesses three kinds of 7 passes algorithms, each being extremely secure itself. These are:
- DoD5200.28-STD
- B.Schneier's Algorithm
- German Standard
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- Others: Other prominent wiping algorithms to mention are:
- Russian Standard – GOST
- US Army AR 380-19
- US Air Force, AFSSI 5020
- NATO Standard
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Other than drive wipe, Stellar Wipe Mac also enables wiping of individual files/folders, browser's history, Internet Activity, Instant Messaging, System Traces and File History.
