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app or technique for cleaning a iMac hard drive

app or technique for cleaning a iMac hard drive. I would like to donate my iMac to charity.

Posted on Sep 24, 2019 2:18 PM

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Posted on Sep 24, 2019 2:59 PM

Use Disk Utility in the Recovery Partition to format the drive.


  1. Restart in Recovery Partition (Command + R on startup)
  2. Select Disk Utility
  3. Format the Internal HD
  4. Quit Disk Utility
  5. Install Mac OS on the internal drive.


However before doing so please carefully read https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065 and follow the steps in this advice letter!!!!

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Sep 24, 2019 2:59 PM in response to mas1345

Use Disk Utility in the Recovery Partition to format the drive.


  1. Restart in Recovery Partition (Command + R on startup)
  2. Select Disk Utility
  3. Format the Internal HD
  4. Quit Disk Utility
  5. Install Mac OS on the internal drive.


However before doing so please carefully read https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065 and follow the steps in this advice letter!!!!

app or technique for cleaning a iMac hard drive

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