HT201065: What to do before selling or giving away your Mac
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Sep 18, 2015 7:43 AM in response to jakecolaby Niel,You need a DVD to do that. Except for booting from the DVD instead of the recovery partition, the process is identical to the one for 10.7.
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Sep 18, 2015 7:43 AM in response to jakecolaby Eric Root,You will need a set of disks in order to reformat since you are running 10.6. You have to boot off the DVD to erase and reformat. You are also supposed to transfer to the new owner the disks that came with the computer. Contact Apple Support and have the serial number of your computer available. They will send you new original disks for a small fee.
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