reformat hard drive

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reformat hard drive

I am currently backing up my macbook (2009) with yosemite 10.10.4. I have finally bought a new external hard rive. What is the process of reformating the macbook and rebuilding it?

MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

Posted on Sep 4, 2015 3:47 AM

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Yer_Man

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Sep 4, 2015 4:11 AM in response to Kevin Bouah

Couple of ways depending on exactly what you want to do, and all pf them would require a back up first. But why are you doing this? And exactly what do you want to do? Reinstall the OS? Erase and instakll it? There is no "rebuild" as such.

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Kevin Bouah Author

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Sep 4, 2015 4:13 AM in response to Yer_Man

Hi Terence,

Maybe rebuild is the wrong word....My MacBook is very slow...and one of the community forum members advised that I should back up my MacBook and rebuill (reformat) the drive.

I have backed it up....but not sure how to ''clean up the drive and start reloading only the programs a nd documents I really require.

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