MacBook Pro 13 " 2012 Internal Drive Format.

[Vivek Kanna Jayaprakash]

Good morning y'all
I have a MacBook Pro 13" 2012 and my cat spilled hot coffee on it ;( and it doesn't boot up.So I m planning to take it to the service centre but would like to erase the entire hard drive and factory reset the system.

If I remove the internal hard drive use a connector and connect it to my PC and delete the contents of it and then fix it back into the Mac would I have erased everything from the drive and factory reseted it

I have lot of valuable stuff on the drive and don't wanna give it away to the service person.

Please help me guys in this.

 

[Longkeg]

Assuming the hard drive is still functional, yes your plan should work. Sort of. Your Mac formatted hard won’t be readable on a PC without some tweaking.

There may be a recovery partition on there that you can’t easily access but none of your files would be on it. I wouldn’t bother replacing the drive in the laptop though. If the computer is fixable a tech can boot it from an external drive. If it’s dead at least you’ll have your files on a working drive.

 

[Vivek Kanna Jayaprakash]

Thank you soo much