I have an eMac and I want to restore it to factory settings.
I dont have an installation disc. Please guide me. I want to restore it as it has become very slow and because after the computer boots up, 10-20s after the desktop appears, the colours fade away and there is a certain tint on the screen which hides the real colours.
Please help me, I am sure there must be a way to do it without the disc too.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.4)
Do you have an eMac or an iMac?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
To restore the computer to factory settings, follow these steps:
1. Hold Command and R keys while your Mac is starting to start into OS X Recovery, and open Disk Utility.
2. Choose "Macintosh HD" on the sidebar, go to the Erase tab and erase the drive.
3. Close Disk Utility and reinstall OS X. OS X will be downloaded from Apple and installed.
Apart from that, there's also Internet Recovery, available for 2010 and newer Macs. This mode, accessible holding Command, Option (Alt) and R keys while your Mac is starting, downloads Recovery HD from Apple, and it will always reinstall the original OS X version that came with the Mac
If 10.4 you won't have the CMD+r Restore partition to boot to.
Tough without the Install disc, but some things to try...
Does it boot to Single User Mode, CMD+s keys at bootup, if so try...
/sbin/fsck -fy
Repeat until it shows no errors fixed.
(Space between fsck AND -fy important).
http://www.westwind.com/reference/os-x/commandline/single-user.html
Have you blown the dust out lately?
Restore eMac to factory settings ?
