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MacBook Pro - Mountain Lion, how to do a factory reset? |
ofiaich
Joined: Nov 12, 2001
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From: East Yorkshire, England
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Hi everyone!
I have a MacBook Pro 13" 2.66gHz, mid 2010? It has 8gb memory and 320GB and is running Mountain Lion.
I will sell this and want to restore it to the factory settings. Mountain Lion was downloaded via Apple Store and I do not have any CD's, or other flash media with restore software.
I know I could uninstall software such as Entourage and Elmedia, and also I can delete all email accounts, iTunes accounts, my own home network settings etc and I need to check how to do that.
I will research more but any advice from experienced Mac Users is always appreciated!
Ofiaich 
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adnansanni
Joined: Dec 07, 2006
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From: Bangladesh
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Ofiaich: If you bought and installed the mountain lion from app store then after installed, the installer has deleted automatically. You have to re-download the mountain lion again (won't cost you again) and make a bootable flash drive or DVD from it. after make the bootable flash drive or DVD, Boot from it, format the Internal Hard-Disk and re-install.
Here is the instruction you may follow:
How to create a bootable, backup Mountain Lion install disk
How to make a bootable Mountain Lion install drive
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jplacson
Joined: Apr 21, 2002
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From: Philippines
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Mountain Lion is yours via your iTunes account.
If you do NOT have any recovery CDs to restore back to Leopard or Snow Leopard and you just want a complete wipe (similar to Windows reformat) it's quite easy on a Mac.
1) Open System Preferences
2) Click on Users & Groups
3) Unlock and create a new ADMIN user w/ no password
4) Log in as the new ADMIN user
5) Delete your old user account.
That's it. Takes about 3 minutes.
This will NOT downgrade back to Leopard or SL, your MBP will still remain on ML, unless the HDD dies and the next owner has to restore.
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ofiaich
Joined: Nov 12, 2001
Posts: > 500
From: East Yorkshire, England
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thanks adnansanni and jplacson!
I will read the links carefully! I think just removing all my email accounts, iTunes info, etc might be enough..!
Now to read those links!
thanks again!
Ofiaich
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Posted: 2012-08-19 13:03
