mistyv007
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Q: restore to factory settings

I am selling my Early 2008 White MacBook that I purchased from an online vendor about a year ago.  Unfortunately it did not come with any disks; however, I upgraded the OS to Lion and have that disk.  The problem I am running into it that once I did the "Option plus Restart" and cleaned the disk off, it restarted and prompts me to do 1 of 4 things.

1) restore from Time Machine backup (don't know what that means)

2) Re-install Mac OS X

     -  Set up and Install a new copy of Lion

3) Get Help Online

4) Disk Utility

 

I chose Option 2 and it has literally been 3 days and it is stuck saying I have over 100 hours left.  I am selling this today and have no idea how to fix this and get it back to working.

 

Thanks in advance,

Misty

Posted on Jul 28, 2014 7:10 AM

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  • by DaveOrz,

    DaveOrz DaveOrz Sep 24, 2014 2:54 PM in response to K Shaffer
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    Sep 24, 2014 2:54 PM in response to K Shaffer

    This was a great thread, thank you Mr. Galt, for that level of detail.  I'm patiently waiting for my Intel T2700 CPU to get here from the PostMan and I plan on upgrading a MiniMac1,1 2006 this week.  However, now that I'm equipped with more information on the workings of the OS X, after this upgrade I will be focusing my efforts to get my iMac 2009 *finally* installed properly (I got it from eBay) and man has it been an on and off hassle for YEARS ...now I know why.

     

    There is NOTHING more frustrating then having a machine that works fricken unbelievable after a reinstall, (thus have a base line to compare)....and then watch it decay into a muddling mass of bogged down console errors and the what not.  I must have reinstalled the OS X a dozen times on this machine only to watch it return to a finicky problem child.

     

    Just stopping by to say thanks, and also brag a bit ... I enjoy the fact I have a "RARE" Apple article ..... :-)

     

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