Looking for Mac secure hard drive erase software

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markw10markw10
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in Mac Software edited January 2014
I have a MacBook Pro and am going to sell it to upgrade to one of the newer MacBook Pro's. What is the best way to securely erase it before selling it? I have a lot of work data that I don't want to chance anyone being able to recover. In the past I had a windows program which conformed to DOD security for erasing. Is there anything like that I can do to securely erase my mac hard drive?

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    tarltarl Posts: 41member
    Boot from DVD Installer and choose Disk Utility from one of the menus (can't remember the exact one).



    Select your drive.



    In the erase tab, there's an option to do a 35-pass erase. That should make it pretty darn hard to recover anything after.
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    mydomydo Posts: 1,888member
    Then do the 8 pass Marcovian random bit write.
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