Hi, I bought my Macbook in Nov 2008, Alumunium and now I am selling this to my friend how can i reset to factory setting without the CD

How can i restore my macbook to the factory setting?? I am presenting it to my friend.

since you are running mt lion on the mac you can boot to the recovery partition (restart holding down command+R keys)
once booted there open the disk utility window and then on left side select the mac HD select the erase tab and make sure that next to format it says "mac OS extended journaled"
click on the erase button
once done close the disk utility window then click on the option to "install mac OS" and follow the prompts
once the install is completed and the mac is restarted it will be like new and the setup assistant will open on startup

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