Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I'm returning to Apple a MacBook Pro 2.9GHZ as it is slower than my 2013 Mac Pro Cylinder, albeit with 6 core 3.5GHz. I had been assured that the new MacBooks would ace the older cylinder!
So I transferred by data and proceeded to delete everything. I check with Disk Utility and some PDFs and all my key chain info were still there with numerous other files for about 1.1 GB total.
I did a complete erase writing over with random ASCII using Techtool Pro 9.6.2 and the files were still there!
Now I am doing a 00110011 write over x3 to see if I can get to the sectors hiding the password that I want to erase! Perhaps that will work!
Meanwhile, ideas how to reach protected areas of the SSD? I tried "secure erase" with the disk Utility but after several hours, there was no sign of activity.
Asher
So I transferred by data and proceeded to delete everything. I check with Disk Utility and some PDFs and all my key chain info were still there with numerous other files for about 1.1 GB total.
I did a complete erase writing over with random ASCII using Techtool Pro 9.6.2 and the files were still there!
Now I am doing a 00110011 write over x3 to see if I can get to the sectors hiding the password that I want to erase! Perhaps that will work!
Meanwhile, ideas how to reach protected areas of the SSD? I tried "secure erase" with the disk Utility but after several hours, there was no sign of activity.
Asher