Q: Resetting my iMac with an awkward situation at hand.
This is going to be a little peculiar as to what exactly is happening but I do hope someone out there can help me out.
Here's an in-depth explanation as to how I've obtained this iMac:
My grandmother is a truck driver, and she has picked up the habit of being a 'dumpster diver', and so just the other day she came across a pile of stuff while she was out and she managed to find this iMac along with a couple of other things that she grabbed. She brought it to me, seeing as she had no real use for it and said I could have it. So, after booting it up and celebrating that there was no damage done to it and it worked properly, I came to the realization that it was used, obviously. So, I am here asking all of you if you know of a way for me to completely restore this iMac to it's original factory settings. I do know the steps that I can take in order to reset it, but I've come in to a problem. Due to the fact that this computer was used, there is already an administrator account created and a password set to it, I've looked around to try and find out how to reset the password and managed to find a way; starting the iMac up through an Mac OS X install disc (which also happen to be with the computer). I've tried this and it never completely loads, it just sits at a gray-ish screen with the loading icon. So, I've done all I can do to attempt to reset it, and now I am here asking all of you if you know what exactly I can do to reset this iMac.
Just incase it's needed, here is the 'About this Mac' information:
Version: 10.3.9
Processor: 1.6 GHz PowerPC G5
Memory: 256 MB DDR SDRAM
Also here is the information on the CD/DVD that was also in the iMac:
Mac Pro
Mac OS version: 10.5.6
Disc version: 1.0
iMac, Mac OS X (10.3.x)
Posted on Oct 20, 2013 3:00 PM
That's all you'll need. You can wipe the drive using Disk Utility from the installer disk, and then reinstall the OS using the disk. I'll have to get out my disk and go through the motion myself (without actually wiping ) to refresh my memory on the exact steps, or maybe someone else knows.
Posted on Oct 20, 2013 7:16 PM
