Selling '09 MacBook Pro, how do I clean off harddrive, and reinstall softwa
I have a buyre for my 2009 MBP, and I have cleaned the harddrive, but how do I install the applications, if I stop when the screen comes up for the new owner to input his informations? I can't get past this screen to install the other disc, can I?
dismasjw wrote:
I have a buyre for my 2009 MBP, and I have cleaned the harddrive, but how do I install the applications, if I stop when the screen comes up for the new owner to input his informations? I can't get past this screen to install the other disc, can I?
I wouldn't install anything. Give the user the Installation Disks with the computer. Let him register it and decide if he wants to migrate info from an old Mac.
You're done!
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I am selling my MacBook Pro, and have a few questions regarding that. If it helps to know in the beginning, I am switching from a Mac to PC (it's a sad day, I know).
The primary one is, of course, how do I safely wipe/clean the hard drive and prepare it for the nest person? I read something on another forum that I didn't quite understand - maybe it had something to do with the person who started the discussion also wanting to install other software to be included with his Mac (iLife), but the response was to "mount" such and such, replace this name with a generic "admin" or something, etc. I'm not sure what that was all about. Any clue?
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