l008com
Well-known member
I'm trying to erase these old PowerBook 500 drives I have. I want to zero them before I get rid of them, like I always do with modern drives. But these are a little trickier, the only way I can format them is by booting this old PowerBook off of a floppy. So I can't get Drive Setup available to me, I can only use Apple HD SC Setup. It has an initialize option that is very slow. But I'm trying to confirm for sure that it is zero'ing a drive when you "initialize" it? If it's just doing a reformat without zeroing, I'll have to find another way to erase these guys.