Is it absolutely necessary to wipe the drive, or would simply erasing everything that's not part of OS X and doing a secure overwrite of free space suffice?

My next best suggestion is that you find a generous pack-rat.

Edit: Maybe defrag first?

Last edited by artie505; 01/04/14 10:45 AM.
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