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Solid State Drive erasure
I read the following, " an SSD cannot be securely erased. When Disk Utility tries to write data over the entire drive, the SSD’s firmware will write that data where it chooses, and that may mean that some portions of the SSD remain unerased, and thus may contain recoverable data. If you have...- madrich
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Erased HDD, Reinstall Doesn't Work for Lion
Hi guys, So long story short, I have an older iMac, and it froze, I restarted it and it wouldn't start up any more. I would just get the Apple logo and the loading circle. I read online to try and unplug, press power for 5 seconds, then plug in, wait 10 seconds and turn on, then I got a...