How to go back to facotory settings on Macbook pro

Ive tried reloading the original disk that the macbook came with. However it says I can not use this version

Restoring Your Computer to Its Factory Settings
When you restore your computer to its factory settings, everything on your computer
(your user accounts, network settings, and all of your files and folders) is deleted. Before
you restore, back up any files you want to keep by copying them to another disk.
Write down your network settings from Network preferences to make it easier to get
connected again after reinstalling Mac OS X.
1 Make sure you’re connected to the Internet by using an Ethernet or Wi-Fi network.
2 In the Mac OS X Utilities pane, select Disk Utility and click Continue.
3 Select the disk in the list on the left, and then click the Erase tab.
4 Select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format pop-up menu, type a name for
the disk, and then click Erase.
5 After the disk is erased, choose Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility.
6 In the Mac OS X Utilities pane, select Reinstall Mac OS X and click Continue.
7 To reinstall Mac OS X and your applications, follow the instructions in the Mac OS X
Installer.
After restoring Mac OS X and your Apple applications, you can selectively restore your
other data and applications from a Time Machine backup.

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make sure time machine is turned off in system preferences. (it won't let you erase the disk if time machine is still trying to access it)
open the disk utility from in your user account utilities, make sure you are in the erase tab and also make sure you have the whole HD selected (not the section for backups that may be indented under it) also make sure the disk is mounted (there is option at the top of the disk utility toolbar to mount the disk if necessary.
once you have done both of these, make sure that next to format it says mac OS extended journaled and then click the button that just says erase.
after it's done you should then be able to go into system prefs and turn the time machine back on and select the disk to start the backups again.
if it still won't let you erase or do anything w/ the external drive after these steps there may be issue w/ the HD itself that needs addressed

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I recently purchased a used macbook pro, and want to back things up. The previous user used time machine, but I can seem to find a way to use this because the previous user already had their own time machine. IS there any way to back up using time machine or to delete the old users time machine?

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     I need your help guys from the whole world.
I am now in Erbil (North Iraq) and there is no apple authorized resellers or anyone who can fix macs, they can destroy them as they try to repair it ( this is what happened      to me recently with My I phone and I pad). So I am left alone to fix it with your global help I hope.
The issue is, I didn't do back up on my mac book pro for over a year. I woke up 3 days ago, switched my mac and there was this funny pinc ponc noise coming from the lower right hand side of my mac (between track pad and keyboard), the computer was going slow and I wasnt able to do anything even after few restarts. It is always too slow to perform anything and this noise always start after few seconds of starting and keep going. the computer can still function very well on guest account *(safari only) and I don't hear the noise then nor when I press T. But if I try to log in to all my drive or in safe mode I get this noise and none function computer. when I went to disk utility there was message in red to back up my data immediately and take the hard drive to authorized service center.
I checked on internet, you tube and others..and it seems I have faulty hard drive. Since I am here alone and no service center so I think I will replace it myself. But first thing first i need to back up my precious data. I found few ways of doing this and I wonder if you can give me some tips, advise or any other method to do the back up.
1) Transfer data on target mode: I havent done this before but I am thinking to connect my faulty macbook pro to another with firewire, pressing T on the faulty Mac and install Super Duper on the other mac. Then I connect external hard drive to the working mac via USB. And the question is     :      can I transfer the files this way to an external bootable hard drive connected to the working mac     , so the working mac will function as bridge between faulty mac and external hard drive. Also can I do this process through my old none intel based power book(which I am using now) instead of borrowing macbook from friend?
2) Buy new hard drive, open my mac and replace the faulty one. then put the faulty one in external inclosure, connect to refurbished mac and transfer data back. Can I do this? will I need to install the mac os from the CD associated with it before I do transfer?
Is there any other way to do this please?

Jassos wrote:
Hi PlotinusVeritas
where do I download the superdoper please?
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/superduperdescription.html
its here:
Download the free trial now!
This simple software is free and very easy to use, yes, it makes a 100% clone of ALL on your HD, everything.
(assuming its not so dead it wont copy).
you only need the free trial version to clone your HD.
can I download it on guest account? this one I can login and seems to function fine.
Then install same on your guest account, that wouldnt matter, since Superduper clones everything (except the recovery partition which you dont need in your case right now).
LaCie is Seagate (lacie doesnt make HD) , yes, that would be fine, clone your HD ASAP and hope it works.
there is no software fix for HD hardware failure, ......this is why a backup copy of data is so very important all the time, period.

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Recently I deleted some emails from my MacBook Air not realising that they would be deleted on my MacBook Pro. When I realised what was going on I turned off the wifi on my Air and continued deleting. Basically I scrubbed just about everything in order to free up space on my Air for my iPhoto collection
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beckyfromoz wrote:
I do have the Time Capsule and spoke to Apple Care here in Sydney about it yesterday. They told me my mail is not backed up there unless I create a special folder. I just tried ringing them again but Apple Care is closed today...
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James Elliott1 wrote:
How do people do this? (Other than convincing their wives to let them upgrade their MacBook Pro to 10.6.3?)
That really is your best option. Sooner or later, you're going to have a problem with the "other" data on your Time Capsule, since the backups of your Mac will, eventually, fill up all the available empty space. That will, of course, limit the space available for the other backups.
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Marilyn98 wrote:
I just brought a game for my MacBook Pro,
You mean you just bought a game though iTunes thinking it was for your MacBook Pro.
So how do I get the game on my macbook pro
You don't. You can go to Apple menu > App Store to purchase games for your MacBook.
or get my money back.
Contaact iTunes support here -> http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/contact/

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Hi Jai campion,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
Reset factory settings usually means to completely erase the computer and refresh the operating system. What version of the operating system do you have?
Here a detailed explanation of the process for Snow Leopard:
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard: How to Erase and Install
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3910
Mavericks is the latest version of the Mac OS X:
OS X Mavericks: Erase and reinstall OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14243
Cheers,
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