Any data stored on Lion Recovery Partition?

[jimckimmel]

This may be a dumb question, but I want to make sure as I'm getting ready to sell my MacBook Pro. Before I ship it, I want to do a secure erase and clean install of Lion, but want to make sure that if I do that, none of my info (Apple ID, etc) is stored on the Recovery Partition.

Any thoughts on this?

Thanks!

Jim

 

[musty345]

Nop, I'm sure there isn't, as I understand, the recovery partitions on macs don't contain any personal data on them.

I think that this is so that your recovery partition never gets corrupted so if you need to restore, you can do. A simple reinstall of Lion should do the trick

 

[jimckimmel]

That makes sense. Just wanted to make sure - I know the recovery partition installer asks for the AppleID to verify the download, but wasn't sure if that would still be present once the clean install was done...

Jim

 

[musty345]

Just make sure you don't sign in onto your mac into iCloud or anything else after the Lion restore, and if you want some extra peace of mind, try having a look at iTunes/the app store and make sure that you're not logged in.

It might also be worth deauthorising your mac on iTunes before restoring, so that you don't go over your 5 computer limit.