clean and factory reset macbook pro

[trii]

Hi everyone I have a early 2011 15" MacBook Pro 2ghz inter core i7 that I would like to give to my brother, but would like to take off all my information and reset it to factory settings. Can someone help me?

 

[niteflyr]

Hi everyone I have a early 2011 15" MacBook Pro 2ghz inter core i7 that I would like to give to my brother, but would like to take off all my information and reset it to factory settings. Can someone help me?

Here's some helpful info.

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20011109-263.html#!

If your drive has a recovery partition, don't reformat that partition. You can then boot to the recovery partition to re-install OSX.

 

[dylin]

If you are trying to do a complete reinstall to insure nothing is left behind, i suggest falling John's simple instructions here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aee0rZXowEA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8G9m4yzxAg

Hope this helps