Preparing iMac for sale?

[Christina1971]

I recently purchased a Macbook and so I need to do something with my G3/400 grape iMac; I don't have enough room to keep it. The problem is, the DVD-ROM drive is broken, so I can't figure out how I can erase the hard drive so that I can sell it. I was actually thinking about buying an external drive and then just selling that along with the whole system, but that doesn't seem like a very cost effective measure.

Should I just junk it? It seems like it has SOME life left in it for someone...I just want to be able to get my personal data off of it.

 

[Allotriophagy]

If it has Firewire, which it should, can't you just boot it up in Target Disk Mode with your MacBook? Then you can mount the iMac's drive on your laptop and delete/format/copy whatever you need.

All you need is a FW cable.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58583

 

[Rychiar]

u can erase via network, or external or hook up another computer/drive. yur better off just smashing it and throwing it out tho, its not worth anything. hell i wouldnt even bother selling my powermac g4. its just not worth the hassle

 

[BoyBach]

yur better off just smashing it and throwing it out tho, its not worth anything. hell i wouldnt even bother selling my powermac g4. its just not worth the hassle

Saving the world. One Mac at a time.

 

[Christina1971]

Well, then I'll donate it somewhere. There's got to be some charity that could make use of it. Not everyone has to have the latest and greatest.

 

[brokecollegeF04]

if you can pull the logic board and hard drive ill take it along with the matching keyboard and mouse

 

[xtopher]

just make sure theres nothing "explicit" on there when/if you get rid of it. My bud bought an old scrap computer from the salvation army for parts and we took a look on the HD and suprise, suprise! wife, girlfriend, cousin? all i know is they werent wearin much! lol