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sinclac57

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Aug 12, 2014
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Hello,

How would i go about formatting this imac, i want to reset everything back to factory spec's

Chuck
 
You can do that by booting into Recovery (hold down Command-R at boot). Then in the menu bar click Utilities > Disk Utility, and erase the boot partition using the Erase option. Exit Disk Utility and double-click on "Reinstall OS X", to put a fresh install on the drive.
 
You can do that by booting into Recovery (hold down Command-R at boot). Then in the menu bar click Utilities > Disk Utility, and erase the boot partition using the Erase option. Exit Disk Utility and double-click on "Reinstall OS X", to put a fresh install on the drive.


Thank You.
 
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