What to restore my macbook pro to factory setting

what to restore macpro book to factory setting

You may be guided by these instructions:
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/
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How do I restore my macbook pro to factory setting

How do I restore my macbook pro to factory setting

Lion installs both itself and a Recovery HD. Booting the latter is how you reinstall Lion or fix things with Disk Utility. So, what you can do is this:
Install or Reinstall Lion from Scratch
If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.
Now, this will completely erase the volume in which Lion is currently installed. When you then reinstall Lion it will be like coming fresh from the factory ready for a new user. I hope this is a working solution for your problem. If it is not, then I would encourage you to create a new topic more relevant to your needs which will solicit others to offer help. That isn't going to happen in someone else's already old topic. Had I not forgotten to stop email notifications from this topic, then I never would have been aware or your post.

How can I restore my new Macbook pro to Factory setting?

How can I restore my new Macbook pro to Factory setting?

Install or Reinstall Lion from Scratch
If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: Be sure you have an active internet connection.

How do i restore my macbook pro to factory to resell it

How do I restore my macbook pro to factory to resell it?

You'll need both gray discs that shipped with your MacBook Pro. If you no longer have them you can (with your serial number handy) order a set from Apple for around $20.
Then follow the instructions here -> How to prepare your Mac for sale.
Note that you MUST restore with the original OS that shipped with your Mac!
Clinton

HT1338 how to reset my macbook pro to factory setting?

how to reset macbook pro to factory setting?

To restore your computer to factory settings:
1. Hold Command and R keys while your Mac is starting to start into OS X Recovery, and open Disk Utility.
2. Select "Macintosh HD" in the sidebar, go to Erase tab and erase the disk.
3. Close Disk Utility and reinstall OS X.
After reinstalling OS X, you will have to reinstall your iLife applications. If your Mac came with DVDs, just insert the Applications disc and install them. If your Mac didn't come with DVDs, open App Store > Purchases, and download the iLife applications

How to reset my macbook pro to factory setting?

How to reset my macbook pro to factory setting?

Click here and follow the instructions. If the computer originally shipped with Mac OS X 10.6.8 or earlier, when you reach step 5, insert its original disk, restart with the C key held down, use the Disk Utility to erase the internal drive, and install a fresh OS.
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I restored my macbook pro to factory settings now i am stuck !! Help please!!

i restored my MacBook Pro, which is OS X mountain lion 10.8.4,
when i am downloading the os x again it stops in between, because my internet speed is pretty slow and i am living at a place where there is problem of electricity so internet disconnects again and again,
Please help me i am stuck what to do, whats the fastest way to download OS X mountain lion 10.8.
thanks
Sudha

i dont know why yours and my comments are being deleted, anyways i got your answer in email,
now the thing is i have already restored to factory setting and i didnt make any bootable install drive
how could i make one now?
should i contact someone who is already having a macbook pro and make a bootable install drive from thier macbook and then fix mine?

Is there anyway to restore a Macbook Pro to factory settings without a disk?

A friend of mine wants to restore his Macbook Pro running SL but he doesn't have any disk anymore. I don't have any disk either but I was able to do a clean install by using Internet Lion Recovery aand an external hard drive.

No, not without a 10.6 installation disk. Lion doesn't use disks for installation, but Snow Leopard and all previous versions of Mac OS X do.
Regards.

Help!! I attempted to restore my macbook pro to factory settings, but messed up!!!

I dirtied up my harddrive using migration assistant with outdated & not properly functioning software when I purchased my macbook pro retina, so I decided to try to restore it to factory settings. Heres where I will start to look like an idiot: I used the command+R method during startup to get to utilities, and then erased everything there (the hard disk + another mounted drive that came from migration assistant) because I thought I was supposed to. I then tried to startup my computer again but instead of a grey apple logo at the loading screen, there was a flashing question mark. Is this problem fixable if I take it to the apple stor&e? Am I hopeless?

Ok no worries! This is what needs to happen!
You have the flashing question mark which means that there is no operating system on the hard drive. What you need to do is obtain a copy of either lion or mountain lion from another mac. You need to first make a bootable usb drive with lion or mountain lion on it. You can re download mountain lion from the app store or use the current version running on that mac.
See this article.....
http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from -a-usb-flash-drive/
it is such an easy thing to do it isn't even funny.
You then need to turn off the messed up computer and then insert the usb drive. Hold the OPTION key down while booting up the mac. You will then choose the usb drive from the boot up disks. The you must go to disk utility and format the macintosh or the sub disk 1.
After doing that, close the utilites windows and return to the menu with the option to reinstll the os x operating system. Follow the on screen instructions there and you will be good to go. This whole procces can be done within a couple hours.

Restoring Macbook Pro to factory setting

Hi
I follow the instruction of the Apple website for restoring my system into factory setting everything was fine until I needed to connect my macbook pro to wifi.
the problem is under no circumstances the machine could fine the wifi network.
I have tried several wifi networks and still I cannot connect it to the network (main problem is either finding the network or Authentication - for 100% I am sure that I am using the right password because I have to connect to those networks manually everyday)

Hi OGELTHORPE!
Thank you for your advice but I don't know where i can get it and where to get it. Also I don't know also how to use it.
Could you please keep on helping me?
Regards!

Why when i restore my Macbook pro to factory no file are erase

I have restore my system 2 times with the RECOVERY UTILITY and it take like 10 hours and then when it finish an reboot after install the sytem look the same, with all my files

OS X Mountain Lion: Erase and reinstall OS X - Support - Apple

How to restore MacBook Pro to factory

How do I restore my MacBook Pro to factory settings

Just follow these instructions:
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-prepare-your-mac-for-sale/
Ciao.

How do I return a MacBook Pro to Factory Settings and Delete all Passwords before I sell the Computer?

How do I return a MacBook Pro to Factory Setting and Delete all Passwords and Files before I sell the Computer?

How old is your Mac?
What version of OS X came on it originally?
You must return it to the version of OS X that came on it originally before you sell it.

I am going to restore my Macbook Pro to it's factory condition. In iTunes I have renamed a lot of my songs. Last time I cleaned off my mac and restored my music I had to rename all those songs again. How do I get itunes to remember all of those names?

I am going to restore my Macbook Pro to it's factory condition. I do this every once in a while because it seems to improve performance. I backup everything to an external drive and then I restore only what I want from my backup drive. In iTunes I have renamed a lot of my songs. Last time I cleaned off my mac and restored/reloaded my music I had to rename all those songs again. It took me about 2 weeks to reorganize my music. How do I get iTunes to remember all of those names and keep everything exactly the same when I restore/reload the music into iTunes?

path21place wrote:
I am going to restore my Macbook Pro to it's factory condition. I do this every once in a while because it seems to improve performance.
It may seem like it does but it really doesn't.
Just delete stuff you don't want.
Last time I cleaned off my mac and restored/reloaded my music I had to rename all those songs again. It took me about 2 weeks to reorganize my music. How do I get iTunes to remember all of those names and keep everything exactly the same when I restore/reload the music into iTunes?
Use Time Machine, backup everything, do the reinstall (I recommend you don't do it) then restore your user folder with Time Machine.

I restored a Macbook Pro from a Time Machine backup and now none of my passwords are working (and I know they are the correct passwords). What can I do?

I restored a Macbook Pro from a Time Machine backup and now none of my passwords are working (and I know they are the correct passwords). What can I do?

First, make sure caps lock is not on.
Another reason why the password might not be recognized is that the keyboard layout (input source) has been switched without your realizing it. You can select one of the available layouts by choosing from the flag menu in the upper right corner, if it's showing, or cycle through them by pressing the key combination command-space or command-option-space. See also this support article.
If the user account is associated with an Apple ID, and you know the Apple ID password, then maybe the Apple ID can be used to reset your user account password. In OS X 10.10 and later, this option also works with FileVault, but only if you enabled it when you activated FileVault. It's not retroactive. Otherwise, see below.
Note: If you've activated FileVault, this procedure doesn't apply. Follow instead these instructions.
Start up in Recovery mode. When the OS X Utilities window appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
from the menu bar at the top of the screen—not from any of the items in the OS X Utilities window.
In the window that opens, type this:
resetp
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window opens. Close the Terminal window to get it out of the way.
Select the startup volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected. You won't be able to do this if FileVault is active.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Follow the prompts to reset the password. It's safest to choose a password that includes only the characters a-z, A-Z, and 0-9.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.
You should now be able to log in with the new password, but the Keychain will be reset (empty.) If you've forgotten the Keychain password (which is ordinarily the same as the login password), there's no way to recover it.

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