Erasing Hard Drive???

[wedgeseven]

I recently sold my Power Mac online and need to erase the hard drive to get rid of all my personal information. I know the disc that came with the computer has a utility to do this. However, when I did this before on the second option I believe its 10 passes(?), some information still remained such as safari browser history and favorites/bookmarks(not sure if there was anything else but it makes me wonder). i was just wondering if that was normal or I messed up. Or if there is a better way to ensure all my information is totally erased.

thanks
VII

 

[Texas04]

reformat it to another type of Macintosh Format... as you are redoing it. do it over a few times that way everything is erased. somtimes when you reformat fragments are left behind

 

[reh]

If any information was easily readable on the drive, then you didn't erase the whole drive. Run disk utility from your install cd/dvd and erase the drive. Nothing will remain.