Factory reset from HighSierra
Has anyone been able to do this?
iMac 21.5", macOS 10.13
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Has anyone been able to do this?
iMac 21.5", macOS 10.13
If you are trying to set up your Mac as it came new, see: What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac - Apple Support
If you mean something else, please explain.
If you are trying to set up your Mac as it came new, see: What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac - Apple Support
If you mean something else, please explain.
It should work...
Get an external drive...
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
Once hooked up Clone the Internal drive to the External Drive with Carbon Copy Cloner...
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
When done Restart & hold Alt key on startup to choose the external drive to boot from.
ok. well there's an easy solution to just wiping the hard drive if that's all you want to do. There's a product I've used for years that is NIST certified to wipe a drive clean. You can download a copy of WIPEDRIVE from White Canyon Software. Go to:
https://whitecanyon.com/home-products
Use the promotion code HOMEFREE to download or pay just shipping cost to get a USB stick loaded with it. The product is free, but pay just a few bucks to ship it.
The copy I've had for years is based on DR-Dos and is self booting. It will find your drive (s) and let you pick which you want to wipe and what algorithm you want to use. The one I used most times is the DOD model. Plan to let it run overnight as it does take quite awhile on even a solid state drive, much less a spinner, and especially if it's multi gig or terabyte.
Hope that helps you out. Perhaps with a totally blank drive you can partition it the way you want and reload your software.
Steve
I can't erase startup disk and so proceed
You can't erase the disk when booted into Recovery Mode? Any error message?
No
You need to try and explain what happens when you try. We can't see what's going on from here.
Disk utility is grey for erase, restore and mount. First column shows WDC WD50
What other information do you need? Perhaps I should give up?
Can you boot from an external drive?
When you do that are you pointing your mouse to the drive (top level) or the partition below it (like "MacIntoshHD" or whatever it was called when originally formatted?
Have tried both
I wouldn't know how. If you think it would work please tell me how.
Factory reset from HighSierra