Need to send my MBP in, how do I reformat it?

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  1. omizzle, Aug 20, 2009

    omizzle macrumors regular

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    My MBP HD will randomly freeze and I called Apple and they are going to exchange it for me (my MBP is less than 2 weeks old).

    So anyway, I am going to send in my MBP and I would like to reformat it before I send it. How do I do that? Just insert the OSX disk and let it reinstall?
     
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  2. aristobrat, Aug 20, 2009

    aristobrat macrumors G5

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    That's one way.

    If you boot off the OS X disk, when the installer comes up, you should have a gray menu bar across the top (like you do normally in OS X). One of the options should allow you to get to Disk Utility which allows you to do all sorts of wipes of your hard drive.
     
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  3. iphonematt, Aug 20, 2009

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    As the above poster said, you should boot from the included media and open disk utility. Click Macintosh HD on the lest side and then erase. Under security options, at a MINIMUM do the zero-out data. A 7 pass is more secure, but will likely take 7 or more hours.
     
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  4. kryptonianjorel, Aug 20, 2009

    kryptonianjorel macrumors 6502

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    7 pass is 100% overkill
     
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