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Wiping a Mac?
    #20433907 - 08/17/14 06:11 PM (9 years, 8 months ago)

I'm thinking of selling my macbook pro, but of course want to wipe it and have a clean slate for the buyer. How do I do this? I don't have a copy of the OS to reinstall, btw. Any help on this matter is appreciated. Thanks in advance~~~


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Re: Wiping a Mac? [Re: Penelope_Tree]
    #20434017 - 08/17/14 06:45 PM (9 years, 8 months ago)

Penelope, assuming you're using the Lion 10.7, Mountain Lion 10.8, or Mavericks 10.9 operating system, all you need to do is hold down Command + R as you boot the computer to boot into the recovery partition.  Inside the recovery partition, you'd first go to the disk utility tool to erase the hard drive, after that you'd close out of the disk utility and select Reinstall Mac OS X.  It will download a fresh copy of the operating system and reinstall it.  If your macbook is running snow leopard or prior, you're going to need to download a copy of the operating system manually and create either a thumb drive or DVD to boot from.  I can help you with that too, just let me know.


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Re: Wiping a Mac? [Re: CosmicJoke]
    #20460961 - 08/22/14 06:08 PM (9 years, 8 months ago)

OP try running fdisk from a live cd/usb.


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Re: Wiping a Mac? [Re: xpl0de]
    #20466438 - 08/23/14 08:32 PM (9 years, 8 months ago)

DBAN. For all of your hard drive wiping needs.
http://www.dban.org/

It's totally overkill and totally worth it.


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