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Jul 21, 2016 6:02 PM in response to Nechilciucby lllaass,★HelpfulIf you remove the HD there is nothing to identify the Mac as yours so FindMyMac.
To use FindMyMac the Mac has to be connected to the internet and FindMyMac has to be turned on in System Preferences>iCloud. That requires the Mac be signed into iCloud.
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Jul 21, 2016 9:28 AM in response to Nechilciucby Grant Bennet-Alder,This is a theoretical exercise in splitting hairs, so lets have at it:
I expect Apple is using the unique Hardware Address (M.A.C. address manufactured into every Internet-capable computer) rather than iCloud Account data. So just removing iCloud account data and the Apple-ID of the owners MacOS software is unlikely to cancel the alarm.
Find My Mac service is run by Apple. Anything that allows Apple, Inc to see that MacBook’s M.A.C. [Hardware] address has the potential to set off the alarm on that MacBook. iCloud contact to ANY account (not necessarily user-initiated) and Mac App Store contact are the most likely to set off the alarm. But Apple does not have access to every transaction to every other site that occurs on the Internet, only the ones directed at Apple Inc or at iCloud or Mac App Store/Software Update or similar services.
Suppose you immediately installed a different, already initialized Hard drive, with Windows installed on it. Suppose you never surfed over to Apple, Inc web site and never ran any iCloud services or anything iCloud and never ran a Mac Software Update. Apple would have no way of seeing your MacBook’s M.A.C. address, and no way of sounding the alarm on your Mac.
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The above is not a very likely thing to happen. Most thieves of an Apple device will eventually want to run it as an Apple device, and will connect to software update, iCloud, or other Apple sites without deliberately obscuring the manufactured-in M.A.C. [Hardware] address. I expect that is all it will take to will set off the alarm.
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Jul 21, 2016 6:04 PM in response to lllaassby Nechilciuc ,Thanks for that and I'm just wondering if I put a new hard drive in amd connect it to the Internet will my finf my Mac work or will it make me sign into iCloud again and turn it on
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