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Wiping a Power Mac G4

Mar 11, 2008 3:17PM PDT

I have an old Power Mac G4 running OSX 10.2.8. I want to wipe it completely - how can I do that? I don't know the password to the computer, which doesn't help matters.

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Mar 11, 2008 3:22PM PDT

Sorry, should have added, I've none of the original disks either!

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Do you have any disks?
Mar 11, 2008 9:56PM PDT

without an installation disk, you will not be able to reset the password or wipe the drive.

To do either, you have to boot the machine from a system that is not the internal hard drive.
However, with two internal hard drives, both with a viable system on them, you can boot from one and "fix" the other.

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