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How can factory resetting macbookpro when recoveryHD deleted

I bought recently macbookpro 13inch. During try for installation of windows7 insidently Recovery HD deleted. Now i to factory setting for my macbookpro. How can i do factory setting after deletion of recovery HD?

Posted on Apr 9, 2012 3:14 AM

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Apr 9, 2012 7:46 AM in response to UNLOCK PHONE

UNLOCK PHONE wrote:


I bought recently macbookpro 13inch. During try for installation of windows7 insidently Recovery HD deleted. Now i to factory setting for my macbookpro. How can i do factory setting after deletion of recovery HD?


Log into Windows/OSX and grab a copy of your files off the machine, or perform Data Recovery Efforts to get a copy of your data off the machine.


https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3172


Use a friends Lion machine and make a Lion Recovery USB


http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/08/lion-recovery-disk-assistant-tool-makes-external- lion-boot-recovery-drives/



Option boot and Erase with Zero in Disk Utility the entire internal drive (select the drive name and size), install the Lion Recovery, reboot into Lion Recovery (command r) and install Lion fresh from Apple's servers


reboot, setup with same user name, software update, install all programs from fresh sources, create bootcamp/install Windows, return users files from backup last for best performance


consider making bootable clones, will copy the Lion Recovery for backup



learn more


https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents

Apr 11, 2012 12:17 PM in response to Shootist007

i tried Online Recovery HD system. when Online Recovery HD system installed then i select reinstall MacOS X option. But i failed due to following message:

first messege "to download and restore mac os x your computers`s eligibility will be verified Apple" i presed "Continue" next messege appeared "A server with specified hostname could not be found"

i retried then after first messege i got second messege "could not find installation information for this machine. Contact AppleCare" kindly help me how can i install factory setting Mac OS X on my machine

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