just to spread this out, I just located a useful site that talking about "zero out data" (as one pass formatting)
check this out:

http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-reinst ... m-scratch/

yes thank you

I may ignore the one pass matter..& continue as usual in installation..Hoping thing will not effect my used SSD.

Best

Hi everyone

I need your help please in this one:

I have a used SSD drive on my PC (SATA III) with Win 7 on it, & I want to use it into my MBP late 2012.

to do this, I need to swap it into my mac, & perform formatting..then install ML 10.8.5 on it (I have it on bootable USB).

in order to do ...

thank you

it came with Lion built in OS.i will perform installation demo in another old hdd to see the result.& inform back.
thank you again

Dear all

I switched to mac before a year or so.but i’m still don’t know many about this new environment (in deep).
I have few questions I would like to ask, & seeking for your generosity in providing me the necessary knowledge.

I recently bought Macbook pro (i7, third generation-non retina).it ...