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Dukey

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Sep 25, 2011
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Hey there,

So I'm selling my old MBP (late 2009, 2.8 GHZ intel core 2 duo) to my cousin and I was wondering what is the best way to go about clearing out the system.
I also have Bootcamp installed in it as well so I'm questionable about wiping the whole drive.

I was wondering what was the best way to go about cleaning 99% of the my photos, video, music, apps, etc. and keeping boot camp still installed. Thanks
 
Create a bootable USB installer for whatever version of OS X you have. Boot into it and use Disk Utility to wipe your Mac partition and then reinstall OS X on the blank partition. Theoretically, this would keep your Boot Camp installation intact. If you have problems booting into Windows, you should repair disk to fix the partition map.
 
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