[macvoiceover] Re: Restoring a Mac
- From: Sarah Alawami <marrie12@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:06:05 -0700
Yep that's what I thought. snl foes not have an erase option so I think travis
there must have leopard not snl I think.
Take care all.
On Mar 23, 2011, at 9:45 AM, ashley wrote:
> depends what your installing though; leopard has erase and install, whereas
> snowleopard doesn't.
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> On 22/03/2011 21:46, Travis Siegel wrote:
>> All correct, but the other option is just to tell the installer to install
>> new, (or whatever they call it) not preserving user accounts and
>> information. That will accomplish the same thing, and you won't have to
>> perform the extra step of erasing the disk yourself.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 22, 2011, at 12:08 PM, ashley wrote:
>>
>>> Here's the basics:
>>> 1. insert the mac OSX install dvd.
>>> 2. restart holding down the letter C when you here the chime, keep it down
>>> till the cd reads and starts working
>>> 3. After 2-3 minutes, you should be able to launch VO with cmd F5.
>>> 4. press enter to select english on the language screen
>>> 5. In the installer, go into the menu bar, over to utilities, and select
>>> disk utility
>>> 6. In disk utility, find ht etable of disks and select the mac harddrive,
>>> selecting the first level (will say something like, for example, 120GB
>>> WD...)
>>> 7. Navigate and select the erase tab.
>>> 8. Select "security options" near the bottom of the window, select your
>>> option in there.
>>> 9. Make sure the format is mac OS extended journaled, and click erase.
>>> Depending on your security option, it could take some time.
>>> 10. quit disk utility, and proceed through the installer as normal.
>>> 11. when the mac restarts, you will here the welcome video. If you don't
>>> want to setup an account for the person you're selling it too, press cmd+Q
>>> and then click the shutdown button to shut it down. you can use vo for this
>>> part. The next time it's booted, the welcome video will play again and the
>>> user can create the account as normal
>>>
>>> HTH!
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>>> On 22/03/2011 09:54, Linnette Whalen wrote:
>>>> Hello Group,
>>>>
>>>> I have a three year old black Macbook that I am selling. I would like to
>>>> take it back to it's original state before passing it on. I have the
>>>> original software. It came with Leopard and I upgraded to Snow Leopard.
>>>> Would appreciate any useful direction.
>>>>
>>>> Linnette>
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