Allan 79k 24 24 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Just out of interest what was the third proposed solution - you only show two Apparently counting is hard for me. There are indeed only two proposed solutions. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. John Keates John Keates 2, 7 7 silver badges 14 14 bronze badges.
This seems super promising. Is there some reason that the shell wouldn't be recognizing the hard drive? That message was probably just a static suggestion added to the installer. Regarding the disk, you can try dmesg for any messages regarding found hardware.
In some cases it might be under a different label due to the APM style disk on an Apple-specific controller. Solar Mike Solar Mike 4, 3 3 gold badges 12 12 silver badges 26 26 bronze badges. Just to confirm: this approach would require a copy of the mac os installer DVD. Allan Allan 79k 24 24 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. This has the downside of not erasing the free space and still leaving the machine with all non-user data like logs, licenses, software and an operating system that is no longer secure, or usable online.
JohnKeates - diskutil can erase free space and the Admin user can uninstall Apps and manually delete logs using the above method, but that was out of the scope of the question which was to remove user data — Allan. The scope in the question was somewhat larger considering the mentioned practice of applying shred a number of times.
Your iBook should have an internal drive which may work if you set up the disk correctly and use the correct media. You may want to give Apple support a call and see if you can still buy the required recovery disk for your iBook system. If they can't supply it Apple technically doesn't support this model any more see if they can at least give you the part number so you can try to find one online.
Or you will need to buy a retail version of Leopard just make sure you get the copy with CD not DVD as your optical drive will not support the newer dual layer disks. Just be careful on which drive you select as you don't want to over write your data on your good running Mac. Lastly, remember this system won't run the newer applications and the system is limited to Leopard OS-X Fix Your Stuff Community Store. Even if they can this sort of thing tends to be rare and thus expensive.
Question: Q: How do I erase an ibook g4 so that I can donate it? More Less. Communities Get Support. Sign in Sign in Sign in corporate. Browse Search. Ask a question. User profile for user: MooseHeart MooseHeart. Want to donate my iBook G4 running Tiger. How do I erase all my information? The only other way you can remove everything is to have the original mac os install discs.
If you want to just delete the old account, open up system preferences, go to "Accounts," create a new account, then login with the new account. Once you're in with the new account, you can go back to system preferences and delete the old account. When I attempt to startup, it goes to a grey screen and states several codes, including: "panic cpu 0 caller 0xE1Ec4 : Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerBook6,7".
At the bottom of the screen, it also states: panic: We are hanging here
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