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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Any catches on restoring from an old Mac OS X v10.8.5 Time Machine HDD backup to new SSD on a 13.3" MacBook Pro (9,2; MD102ll/A)?
Date: 1 Oct 2015 18:26:16 GMT
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On 2015-10-01, Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Yep. They better let us watch them test! :P
>>>> 
>>>>> They did it right in front of me just a couple months ago. Just tell
>>>>> them you want to see it.
>>>> 
>>>> Cool. Definitely NO to taking the HDD. 
>> 
>>> Why? If you don't want Apple to have the data, simply run Disk Utility and
>>> erase the drive. You can even insist on doing it right there at the store
>>> before you hand it over to them. It's your (his) computer, after all.
>> 
>> Doing secured erase takes hours though.
>
> You don't have to do the secure erase. Apple isn't going to go through the
> time and expense to attempt to recover deleted files from a dying hard
> drive. That requires special tools and is a very time-consuming and tedious
> process that may not recover anything useful at all. Just erase the drive
> and be done with it.

So why no response? Do you simply not believe those of us who are
telling you this, or what?

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