The issues relate to the method you use to create the parted magic bootable usb drive. It might also be possible to use parted magic from a bootable flash drive. How to secure erase an ssd using parted magic, restoring. Important secure erase information can be discovered by hovering your mouse over the second column so information could be displayed about your device.
Mac os extended journaled, encrypted the encrypted part is crucial. Heres how to use parted magic to securely erase ssd drives. Erasing sata drives by using the linux hdparm utility. Partedmagic partitioning, cloning, rescue, and erasing. Old version secure erase, sanitize and psid revert using. As you may know, wiping ssds in a laptop can be tricky, as booting from a usb, the ssd does not wake, which means the ata erase cannot be performed. Or using parted magic s software to do a wipe using the ssd s internal methods. Secure format an ssd or the os x boot disk via recovery mode. You also get the performance gains from this as you effectively have a brand new drive.
Secure erase, sanitize and psid revert using parted magic uefi. Adding a 2nd hard drive or solid state drive to a laptop by replacing the dvd or bluray drive duration. For ssds especially, id recommend using parted magic s ata secure erase app. Secure erase by parted magic works with both ssd solid state drives and hdd hard disk drives. The newest macs ship with a recovery partition rather than a separate. Problems erasing ssd, and installing new apple community. Cant securely erase ssd with parted magic, alternatives. Wenn ihr diese schritte als anleitung zum umbau nehmt. Parted magic can be used to perform a secure ata erase. So installiert man eine 2,5 zoll crucial ssd in ein macsystem. Solid state drives ssds are quickly replacing traditional. With the partition editor you can resize, copy, and move partitions.
Beim verkauf eines pcs mit ssd sollten dort keine personlichen infos mehr. Attempting to boot parted magic on a mac can cause some issues. Not sure this is comparable to writing zeroes or any other erase procedure. Before commenting, see also the accompanying detailed article at.
How to securely erase a solid state drive on mac os x. With that being said, everything that we sell need to have the hdd either sanitized or destroyed, and our ssds are wiped with parted magic ata secure erase. Crucials guide shows how to install an ssd into a 20082012 model mac pro computer using an icy dock converter. Ssd secure erase parted magic restore ssd to factory. A quick video demonstrating how to create a parted magic uefi bootable usb to perform a. Unlike the methods mentioned above, the secure erase triggers the drives native method for wiping the drive no zeroing or potentially leaving old data in spare blocks on an ssd. In addition to wiping data, it also restores the ssds factoryfresh performance.
Parted magic is easy to use and compatible with most modern ssd drives. Researchers at the nonvolatile systems lab at ucsd have tested various ways of sanitizing ssds by erasing the drive. I have also tried to do a secure erase using disk utility, by encrypting the drive, and then erasing again so i could get the security. The second secureerase utility is actually included in the parted magic suite of tools. Ive used this on multiple macbook pros and macbook airs oem drives without issue. I cannot confirm it works on any other mac other than the one i tested it.