{"id":402,"date":"2022-04-27T08:27:02","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T08:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/?p=402"},"modified":"2023-09-01T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T08:48:20","slug":"securely-wipe-an-old-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"Securely wipe an old iMac for a new user"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>published on 27.04.22<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s straightforward to securely wipe the data from an old iMac from 2011 and reinstall MacOS, leaving it ready for a new owner<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-gb\/HT208496\">Apple allow you to securely wipe or erase the disk drive<\/a>, ensuring none of the previous users data can be recovered. And then you can reinstall MacOS on the drive. The new user can just log in with their Apple ID (or create a new one), and they&#8217;re ready to go<\/p>\n<p>All this is done without any install disks: you just need a working Internet connection<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not comfortable doing this yourself, that&#8217;s no problem: <a href=\"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/?page_id=77\">get in touch<\/a> and I can help prepare your old Mac or PC for re-sale to a new owner<\/p>\n<p>The team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation have made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.com\/documentation\/computers\/getting-started.html#installing-over-the-network-beta\">same sort of functionality available for Raspberry Pi&#8217;s<\/a>: it&#8217;s super easy to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>published on 27.04.22 It&#8217;s straightforward to securely wipe the data from an old iMac from 2011 and reinstall MacOS, leaving it ready [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogpost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vintagepc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}