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ideal.dreams

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I have a computer with no disk drive. I bought an external CD drive from Best Buy and tried to reinstall windows to format it but it keeps getting a BSOD. I have sold the computer on eBay and need to wipe it clean ASAP so I can ship it to the guy.

I found GParted online and there are no instructions on how to make it boot from a flash drive on a Mac.

Can anyone tell me how to do this? I imagine it'd have something to do with Disk Utility but I'm not sure.

Thanks.

Edit:

I have tried doing a restore in disk utility and am getting error "could not validate source - error 254"

Anyone?
 
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