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#HOW TO REFORMAT MACBOOK PRO 17 HOW TO#
#HOW TO REFORMAT MACBOOK PRO 17 INSTALL#
#HOW TO REFORMAT MACBOOK PRO 17 PASSWORD#
#HOW TO REFORMAT MACBOOK PRO 17 BLUETOOTH#
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#HOW TO REFORMAT MACBOOK PRO 17 BLUETOOTH#

Select the target Bluetooth device from the list.

Please connect a USB keyboard and mouse in advance before following steps if you’re using a desktop Mac: iMac, Mac mini, or Mac Pro.

Type sudo shutdown -r now and press Enter.

#HOW TO REFORMAT MACBOOK PRO 17 PASSWORD#

Type the Administrator password and press Enter.

Close all the apps running on your Mac.

This process will last about 20 seconds).

At this time, quickly press & hold Command + Option + P + R until your Mac boots twice – the Apple logo appears twice.

Press the power button to turn it on again.

#HOW TO REFORMAT MACBOOK PRO 17 HOW TO#

How to reset NVRAM/PRAM using startup command: This RAM type will keep data for users after their devices are powered off. The NVRAM, formerly known as PRAM, refers to a small amount of special memory on Mac. If you're using macOS Mojave or earlier, please go to the Apple logo menu -> System Preferences -> iCloud -> Sign Out. Sign out of iCloud (macOS Catalina or later): Type your Apple ID & password, and then click Deauthorize.Select Authorizations from its submenu.

Step 2: Sign out of iTunes, iCloud, and iMessage

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Please read this page to know how to free up storage on Mac when it’s not enough.

Use third-party software: you can also back up a MacBook/MacBook Pro/MacBook Air with third-party programs.

Store your files in iCloud: iCloud and iCloud Drive are also used widely to backup important files like documents, photos, music, videos, and contacts.

Back up with the built-in Time Machine: you can configure Time Machine to back up all your files automatically.

You have two choices: transfer files to another Mac/external hard drive and make a backup of the important files. Please ensure the security of your data on your Mac hard drive. Wipe USB Drives: Erase Your Data Completely & Securely! What to Do Before You Sell, Give away, or Trade in a MacBookīefore talking about how to wipe MacBook (how to wipe a MacBook Pro to sell), I’d like to show users what they should do before erasing the Macintosh HD. What should you do? Do you need to take out the disk drive and ruin it? How to wipe a MacBook completely? All of these questions will be answered later. However, you need to remove the data completely when you plan to change a hard drive, sell/trade in the old Mac, or give away your MacBook to others. In general, you need to protect hard drive data well to prevent personal data loss/leakage.

What to Do Before You Sell, Give away, or Trade in a MacBook.

In the menu you’ll find access to Disk Utility to prep your drive and then re-install your OS. Once you’ve created your boot drive you’ll need to reboot under it. And off you have the older models it will have limited RAM so that also comes to play. Mojave requires Metal2 graphics services which your system does not have. High Sierra intro’ed APFS which only works on SSD’s but using it within a SATA based system is not that great. I do recommend you stick with Sierra Vs any of the newer MacOS’s. Here’s how to do this: How to create a bootable macOS Sierra installer drive

So you’ll need to make an external bootable drive and besides that you’ll want to put on it the OS installer so you can appear a fresh copy from it. Think of it this way your shoes heel broke off and your stop by a shoe cobbler how is he going to fix your shoe? You need to take it off right! Thats the same here if you want to reformat the drive you need to boot up under a different drive to release the drive from the OS.

#HOW TO REFORMAT MACBOOK PRO 17 INSTALL#

When erasing it says “Erase process has failed” with details saying “Couldn’t unmount disk - Operation failed”.Įither make the encryption in FileVault to continue the progress which didn’t work after reading about it and trying things… or to erase the HD and start a new install from my Time Machine backup. I tried to repair or erase “Apple HDD HTS547575A9E384 Media” but it does not work. on Disk Images I see “Apple disk Image Media” which is 2.01 GB and has under it “OS X Base System”(1.29 GB) with option to eject which does not work.

In Disk Utilty I see under Internal “Apple HDD HTS547575A9E384 Media” under which is greyed out my “Macintosh HD”. Now I can not even reformat the HD using Disk Utility from CMD+R mode. I decided to reformat my HD to make a clean install(I have backed up the system with Time machine) after Disk Utility have failed to repair the disk. I think the problem might be something with repartitioning the HD but I see others have problem with encryption as well. After that I went to encrypt my HD using FileVault and it got stuck for days at around 60%. I am running Macbook Pro (Late 2011) on Sierra osX.įirst I repartitioned my HD into single partition(I had Bootcamp).