Intel Mac :: Best Way To Erase It For Resale?
Jun 25, 2012Getting a new iMac and sold my old one and need to know the best way to erase the old one. I still have the original installation disks.
Info:iMac, iOS 5.1.1
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OS X :: Safest Reformatting Method Before Resale
Jun 10, 2009I'm thinking about selling my MBP and before I do that I want to know which is the best way to reformat my MBP so all of my data is completely erased? I don't want the next owner to be able to see all my info and whatnot.
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Jul 27, 2009I bought an imac 2 years ago, and updated it to leopard when that was released.
I no longer have the discs i used for Leopard, only the original mac os x 10.4 discs.I am very soon going to be selling this machine and need to wipe everything so that all is left if the operating system in the form you would expect as if you had just bought a new mac.How can this be achieved, i tried disck utility> erase, but only erase free space was 'highlighted'.
Intel Mac :: How To Erase All Information
Mar 26, 2012I have to erase all my files and personal information because I give my iMac to a friend and I don't know how to do it
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iMac
Intel Mac :: Erase Data From It Before Selling It?
Apr 20, 2012I have a mid-2007 20" iMac, 250 GB hard drive, 4 GB memory, and it runs Lion.I understand I will have to reboot the computer with Snow Leopard, since Lion is non-transferrable, but do I do this after I've deauthorized iTunes and done a 35-pass wipe of the hard drive?Also, do you recommend that I add biogradable peanuts to the inside of the box (I have the original) before shipping it, or are the Apple-provided styrofoam bumpers that fit on each corner sufficient? It's going USPS to a military base overseas.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Intel Mac :: Cannot Reinstall Mac OS X After 7 Pass Erase
May 9, 2012I cannot understand why I am unable to reinstall my Mac OS X installation disk 1 after performing a 7 pass erase. I kept the installation disk in the computer because iMac would not allow me to eject it. Plus I needed the installation disk in my computer to perform the erase in Disk Utility. did I erase the entire installation disk?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Intel Mac :: Erase A File That Says It Cannot Be Deleted?
May 29, 2012I have a file that suddenly appeared and it says that it can not be deleted. I dragged it to the trash and the exact message is:
The item "7702D020" can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted. Â Â
I tried unlocking it. It does nothing when I try to find the info. It says that it is an Excel file and I can not open it either. I am afraid that it is a "nasty" type file. Malware or something along those lines. Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Intel Mac :: Erase Time Machine Backups?
Feb 11, 2012I thought I could use a 1TB External drive to back up my 320GB startup disk, and use the rest of the empty 680GB for storage. However, Time Machine started taking up 600GB of spaceon the External drive! I was like "What the heck!?" So I put unwanted Time Machine Backups in the trash and emptied it. Nothing, they're stuck there now.Â
I'm planning on wiping the disk clean and starting over, but for future reference is there a proper way to delete Time Machine Backups? Surely there must be; (I mean, who would have known Time Machine would take up MORE SPACE than the drive it's backing up in the first place?
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Mac OS X (10.6.6)
Intel Mac :: Erase Stored Email Addresses?
Feb 25, 2012How can I erase stored email addresses?
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Mar 6, 2012I have this iMac, and now I mostly use my macbook pro. So what I want to do to this one is delete everything (of course I will back up what I need) and then reinstall Lion, so first it can be faster. And second imac run bootcamp on it so I can play some PC Games.
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Apr 22, 2012I need to erase my disk and reload the operating system. How do I do that?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Erase Everything And Make Computer Brand New?
May 5, 2012how do erase everything and make my computer brand new?
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iMac (Flat Panel 2003), iOS 5.0.1
Intel Mac :: Cannot Erase Emails From Gmail Account
Jun 11, 2012Cannot erase emails from my gmail account. All other email accounts work with me first deleting then erasing but the gmail account keeps on returning despite having been through all the different processes
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Jun 11, 2012I erase in accident safari and now I dont know how to put back, is not in the trash any more.
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Intel Mac :: Can Erase One Volume On Hard Drive Without Affecting The Others
Mar 23, 2012I have my external HDD partitioned for my Media storage and for Time Machine. Unfortunately, my mac is having problems and I want to back up my computer to reinstall Lion. Problem is...Time Machine is also not backing up anymore (last backup was 2 months ago). So I want to erase the Time Machine volume of my HDD so I can use SuperDuper to backup my hard drive...but of course I don't want to erase the media partion. Â So...using Disk Utility, I can just erase the Time Machine partion (volume) of the HDD and leave the Media portion intact, correct? I would hate to erase the Time Machine volume and find out the Disk Utility also erased all my music and movies too!
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Intel Mac :: How To Erase And Restore If OS X Install Dvd Wont Load
May 15, 2012wanting to erase and just restore my iMac back to the fatory settings and i've already tried to restart and load the OS X install dvd and hold down C when it starts up but the disk reads for about 15 seconds and then ejects and my regular screen appears. can access the disk utility application and it will only let me erase free space. Original OS X version 10.6.2 on dvd installer.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
Intel Mac :: Erase My Backup Files From My External Hard Drive?
Feb 26, 2012I tried to erase my backup files from my external hard drive. Once in the trash, I cannot delete the backup.backup file.
Info:Mac OS X (10.6.7)
Intel Mac :: Unable To Complete Snow Leopard Installation After Performing HDD Erase
Mar 29, 2012I experienced what I believe was a crash so after various attempts at doing a time machine restore, I performed an erase of the HDD and have been trying to install snow leopard from a disk I bought from the Apple store. I am not sure if the disk is the whole OS X or not as it was purchased to upgrade from the OS X that was on the machine. I am hoping to do a time machine backup to get my old programmes/software back afterwards but in the meantime just cannot seem to get snow leopard on my iMac.
Info:iMac
Intel Mac :: How To Erase Time Machine Backup On Old Unused Hard Drive
May 7, 2012How I can erase my old time machine backups on my old external hard drive and re-use for something else to back up.
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iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009)
Intel Mac :: Erase Hard Drive Mac OS X (LION) "Couldn't Unmount Disk"
Apr 15, 2012I've just transferred my data to a new computer and now need to erase the hard drive on my old one.. I've tried Disk Utility, increased the security, and tried 'erase' but I keep getting an error message "couldn't unmount disk". I've gone into Partitions and tried deleting the HD there as well but I get the same message. I just want to get the computer securely wiped and would like to keep Lion as the operating system.Â
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Macbook 2GB ram, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
Intel Mac :: Unable To "Erase" Using Disk Utility
Jun 9, 2012My Time Machine quit BU for over 10 days and then it started to BU whole computer like it was an initial BU. Previously it used 1.5TB of 2TBHD so tried to BU everything again. I wasn't able to erase HD using Disk Utility so I changed the drive to a regular HD in Time Machine preferences and deleted data to trash. Tried to Erase in Disk Utility and it says disk is unformatted and stops utility. How do I erase this HD?
Info:Mac OS X (10.7.2), Parallels, Win7, FoxFire, iPhone3GS
Intel Mac :: Erase Disk Shows Couldn't Unmount Disk
Jun 18, 2012Installing Imac back to factory settings, erase disk shows could't unmount disk how to solve
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), I bought a usb stick with the OS Xa
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: 7 Pass Erase Vs 3 Pass Vs Zero Erase
Apr 25, 2012I want to start afresh on my HD, i.e. reinstall from original disks and use Disk Utility to secure erase (via Erase & Install).I've read articles about pros and cons + how to do it. So I think I know how to do everything.However, from my reading I gather that Zero Erase is a single pass random erase whereas 7 Pass is secure erase (and there is a 3 Pass secure erase option nowadays)?That got me wondering - does 7 Pass secure erase make 7 x single passes over the entire disk?If it does, then when the blue bar has extended a bit over a third of the way across the progress monitor (that little bar that indicates time left) it should have made 3 passes, which would be equivalent to 3 pass secure erase?Is that an option?Is it possible to stop part way through an erase (which is part of E & I)? My original disks 1 and 2 have OS X 10.4, with OS X 10.5 included as complimentary 3rd disk (because OS X 10.5 was just released at that time).I gather I need to erase with disk 1, then install disks 1 + 2, then install OS X 10.5.
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MacBookPro3,1, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 15"/ 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo/ 2GB/ 120GB
MacBook Pro :: Just Zero Erase New SSD - What To Do Now
Sep 18, 2010I just followed this link here [URL] to install my SSD and I foolishly did the Zero Erase. After searching through macrumors, it seems that I have killed my drive. Is there any form of redemption? Corsair F60 on a brand new MBP 15inch
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Dec 27, 2010I've had my iMac since early 2008 (2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, nice NVidia card) and it has ran great until recently. Things seem slow, and take a bit too long to open. Even worse is that its performance is inconsistent. Sometimes iTunes can take 6-8 seconds to load, and sometime 30 or more. I had concluded that this is due to my hard drive being almost full (320 gigs). However, I erased about 50GB of info, and it still performs about the same.
The bump to Snow Leopard helped a bit, but the performance still isn't near where I'd like it to be. I also just installed 4GB of RAM. So a new idea is to just completely erase everything and start over. I have a time machine backup of all of my info, and I would selectively add old information to the newly formatted drive (things like movies, photos, apps). However I have two problems in doing a full erase (or whatever the technical term is).
What happens to preferences and the such? I have my iPad and iPod touch synced to my iMac and I don't know how that would affect them after I tried to sync them after the erase. Also, if I load all of my photos back into iPhoto, will events and albums need to be reconfigured? What happens to my Windows Vista partition? I have a 30GB partition for Vista, and what would happen to it? Would OS X be smart enough to not touch it?
Mac Pro :: Erase Raid From HDD (still Using SSD For Boot)?
Nov 28, 2010I have a 2009 MacPro. SSD has the boot and apps from the 2nd Optical Drive. Original 1x4TB drives are in Raid 0 and have all the data (home folder etc). They also have the original OSX and apps which are no longer in use since everything boots off the SSD.
I want to erase the 4 raid drives (disconnect raid all together) (data all backed up to a drobo). Use first 3 drives as new storage and the 4th as bootcamp.
however, when I try to erase the raid data drives, it says it can't unmount the disk (yes, have no apps running other than disk utility from the SSD apps)
Mac :: Erase HD On Mini Computer?
Dec 13, 2010I need help how to erase the HD on a Mac Mini computer.
It is a 2007 Mac Mini with a processor speed of 2 ghz, Intel core 2 duo.
Version; Mac OS 10.5/ up grated to 10.6 Mac OSX Snow Leopard.
MacBook Pro :: How To Erase Everyting?
Dec 29, 2010I need to repair my hard drive but the Disk Utility won't work.
I found out that I can insert the disk it came with and install the OSX and then run disk utility and do the repair.[I think it's called doing a clean install]
So I insert my disk and try and install the OSX and it's telling me I need to erase everything on my computer and then I can install it because there's a newer version on OSX on it.
[My MBP is 2 years old so I think I have Leopard or Snow Leopard]
Is there any way I do it without having to erase everything?
If I do end up having to erase everything would it be possible to put it all on my Seagate, that currently is holding stuff from my PC? How do I do that?
OS X :: Erase / Reinstall HD For BootCamp
Jan 14, 2011I have a 2007 Blackbook with Snow Leopard installed. I tried to install Bootcamp but it said that I had to do an erase + reinstall first. I booted my mac up from the OS X disc, got past the language menu, then got a pop up stating "MAC OS X Cannot Be Installed." I can't click on Disk Utility or anything else on the menu bar. How else can I erase my HD?
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Jan 28, 2008I am having trouble erasing DVD+RW discs. When I insert a used disc and try to erase it in Disk Utility, the process seems to complete almost immediately, ending with OS X asking me if I want to mount the inserted blank disc in Finder. However, if I eject the disc and put it back in, everything is still on there. (detail: When erasing, there is usually a short interval where a striped progress bar is shown, after which a "normal" progress bar is slowly filled as the disc is erased. However, for me only the striped progress bar is shown--the "normal" progress bar is skipped--and then OS X says erasing is done.) If instead of ejecting the disc I choose to go ahead and burn something as if Disk Utility has actually erased the disc, I get a laser power calibration error.
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