How can I restore my mini mac back to it's original settings?

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How can I restore my mini mac back to it's original settings?

For my birthday, my brother bought me a mac mini.

Not too sure what its called, but it's slim, silver, big-ish and has a C-D slot so I can put C-D's inside.

Anyway, my brother and his friend has somehow managed to put a Windows setting on it. I have no idea why, as I wanted the apple layout/features. Everything Apple is gone and it's all Windows!

As far as I'm aware, in my box, there are no restoration C-D's, so I cannot restore it back to it's original settings.

Could somebody please tell me ASAP if there is anyway I could possibly do something so its all back to normal and it has everything how it should be!

Thank-you very much!

Mac mini

Posted on Mar 2, 2015 7:01 AM

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lllaass

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Mar 2, 2015 7:10 AM in response to phoebe63

What model Mini?

How to identify Mac mini models

If you have another Mac there are ways to use the other Mac to regain use of the "new" Mac.

Try booting to recovery and see if you can reinstall the OS:

OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support

Doing so depends upon the OS that was on the Mac before and what was done.

Otherwise you will need to boot from install disks.

You can call Apple 1-800-MY-APPLE

If you have a Mac with an Intel processor you can order Snow Leopard install disk here

and boot from it and format the disk and instll Snow Leopard.

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