Q: how to change ownership?
Hello all,
First time poster to the support communities. I've been a mac user since a young age but this is something I'm going to need advice on since it's outside of my comfort range in dealing with computers.
I'm purchasing an early 2008 iMac 20" desktop from a friend, which originally had shipped with OS X 10.5. It has since been upgraded to 10.9.5. My friend bought it as an Apple refurbished unit. I have been researching on how to go about wiping the hard drive and changing the ownership to me. The reason I'm posting here is because I'm finding a lot of conflicting information on how to go about reformatting the drive and reinstalling the OS. I've read that prior to 10.6 you'll need the recovery CD to do the reinstallation and that from 10.6 on, there's a recovery mode that allows you to do it without any CD's. That's where I'm confused and possibly reading bad information.
Some additional details:
-It's a refurbished mac so there are no recovery discs that normally used to ship with every new computer. Why that is I have no idea.
-My friend has the Snow Leopard 10.6 CD and it's being included with the computer.
-iMac 8.1 (early '08), 320GB Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.66GHz, 2GB memory, 20"
So I guess my question is this: What's the best way to clear my friend's information off of the computer and change the ownership to my name?
Thanks!
Matt
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
Posted on Jan 16, 2015 3:24 PM