Click the Erase tab. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions. Select your Mac OS X volume. Highlight the drive, select Partition Tab, then Format type. If you are going to erase a hard drive in OS X 10.9 Mavericks system, this guide can help you. If you only want to remove all data from a hard drive in OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you can run Mac Disk Utility to erase a hard drive under OS X 10.9 Mavericks, but the erased data can be recovered by data recovery software.
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Why Paragon Disk Wiper for Mac?
Paragon Disk Wiper for Mac allows to create a bootable USB-flash drive or external hard drive that will help you to completely erase a whole hard disk, a separate partition or just clean free space. After booting your Mac with the bootable media you will be able to use Wipe Wizard to irreversibly remove your confidential data.
Paragon Disk Wiper for Mac supports all Intel-based Macs, providing the possibility to quickly and efficiently sanitize the hard disks in order to protect valuable business information and also because there is, in the most countries, a legal obligation to do so.
Key Features and Benefits
Features | Benefits |
|---|---|
Support for Mac OS X | Works with OS X 10.7 and later. |
Comprehensive wiping | Wipe exactly what you need – hard disks/separate partitions (primary, extended, logical). |
Ten different disk sanitization algorithms support | Irreversibly destroy all on-disk data in compliance with major national government and military data erasure standards, as well as the most comprehensive academic wipe algorithms, thus providing maximum level of security (US DoD 5220.22-M, US Navy standards NAVSO P-5239-26, British HMG Infosec Standard No.5, German VSItR Standard, Peter Gutmann’s algorithm, Bruce Schneier’s algorithm, etc.) |
Wiping SSD | Wipe SSDs of most manufacturers. |
Powerful Paragon`s algorithm | Improved disk wiping technology (SSD Trim) guarantees irreversible secure data destruction on SSD storage devices. |
Flexible customization option | Create your own wipe algorithm with minimal effort – define up to 4 wiping patterns, number of passes for each wiping pattern and for the group of patterns, thus resulting in over 40000 possible number of passes. |
Efficient operation | Minimal effect on the system performance. |
Easy to use | Simple wizard driven engine. |
Basic partitioning operations (create, delete, format) | Optimize the management of your hard disks. |
Wipe report with extended hardware and system information | Be well-informed about the results of the wipe operation to verify when wipe operations have been successfully accomplished. |
Logging of bad blocks (corrupted sectors) | Be informed that these sectors may still contain classified information. |
Support of latest HDD standards | Enjoy support of AFD (Advanced Format Drive), 2TB+ and non-512B sector size drives. |
Supports any hard disk or flash memory | Support of large IDE, SCSI, SATA and GPT/UEFI-formatted hard disks, USB 1.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.0 flash memory drives. |
Comprehensive file system support | Support of FAT16/32, NTFS, Ext2/3/4, Apple HFS+ and other file systems. |
Linux-based Wiping Media | Enjoy support of a wider range of hardware configurations with the option to add drivers for specific hardware on-the-fly. |
- Paragon Wipe Wizard
- Choose the data sanitization method
- Progress information
Susan Lawlor writes in with a common problem:
I’m trying to securely erase my poor sad iMac before donating or recycling it. It’s my old workhorse—running 10.6.8. Disk Utility’s Erase Security Options is grayed out. I have no OS X disk, and there’s no Recovery HD.
It’s admirable to erase your system before you sell—especially with secure erasure—to avoid leaking personal data to someone who buys it or obtains the disk drive. While the odds are likely very low someone would be able to extract data (or be interested in it), you can try to reduce those odds to what is effectively zero.
Susan has a number of options of how to proceed, but there’s a bit of navigation along the way. She’s running 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard), which didn’t include Recovery HD. Security Options in her version of Disk Utility is grayed, because you can’t erase a disk from its startup volume. (That option is always unavailable for SSDs, but an older iMac won’t have an SSD.)
Here are the easiest ways to erase that drive securely by degree of difficulty:
Use Target Disk Mode. With two Macs that both have Thunderbolt or FireWire ports, connect them with the appropriate cable, and follow Apple’s instructions (either hold down the T key after restarting the one to erase or use Startup Disk on that computer before restarting it). The Mac to erase mounts as a drive, and Disk Utility can be used with it.
Install OSX on an external drive or borrow one with OS X installed. Booting off that drive will also allow erasing via Disk Utility.
Upgrade to a newer version of OS X and use Recovery HD. Snow Leopard with the Mac App Store installed should let you download at no cost a later version of OS X. All versions after Snow Leopard include and will install Recovery HD, from which you can then boot and run
iMac models released starting in 2010 can use Internet Recovery, but first have to be upgraded at least to Lion and some need a firmware update installed, so that’s not the simplest path to pursue.
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A related question came in from Becky Steinke, who was trying to erase a 2008 MacBook. She tried to use the Recovery HD startup (holding down Command-R after restarting) and had no luck. Every 2008 and later MacBook Pro and MacBook can install Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, which should be able to install the Recovery partition. If possible, upgrade it to Lion, restart, and use Recovery HD to erase, or use one of the other options above.
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