erase hard drive on emac

I bought an emac mfg date June 2003 at an auction at our high school and it has the school netwok installed on it which requires a username and password to get into. I don't have this info and want to factory reset it. How do I do this? I don't have any discs for it. Also is this model compatible with wifi??

emac 2003-OTHER

Posted on Jan 12, 2014 1:46 PM

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Jan 12, 2014 1:49 PM in response to alievans77

Hi, it may or may not have Wifi already... we'll find out later.


You can't restore without Discs.


Try this & report back...


Reset OS X Password Without an OS X CD...


http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/


Admin Hack...


http://www.hackmac.org/?q=node/4


Starts up like the first time you buy a new Mac, but after filling in all that info again, you should have access to the computer and the other Users & files will still be there... give the new User a different name than an existing one.

Jan 12, 2014 1:52 PM in response to alievans77

You will have to do some searching to find discs for it. It's quite old. Originally it came with Mac OS 9.2.2. It is able to run 10.4.11 - Tiger. An internal modem was optional. I don't know if you can still find them around. But until you boot the computer and examine what's in it, there is no way to know short of taking it apart.

Jan 12, 2014 3:17 PM in response to alievans77

Great news, thanks! 🙂


OK, to start with...


At the Apple Icon at top left>About this Mac, then click on More Info, then click on Hardware> and report this upto but not including the Serial#...


Hardware Overview:


Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac7,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 4 MB

Memory: 6 GB

Bus Speed: 800 MHz

Boot ROM Version: IM71.007A.B03

SMC Version (system): 1.21f4


You'll see several other catagories there & can click on the little triangle beside them to see more if needed.


Also, before you click the More info button, it'll report the OS version, we need that.


As far as removing other User's & info...


System Preferences>Accounts>, unlock the lock, highlight an old user, then click on the tiny minus icon brlow.

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