Reformating 13" MBP

[MUWarrior10]

I am selling my late 2011 13" mbp to my friend. I have deleted pretty much every file I could find on the computer and am not uncomfortable potentially selling it with some data on there. However, I want to ensure she has the best performance possible and maintain use of my apps I have on there (microsoft office/adobe suites).

My question is there an easy way to do this while running the latest version of Mavericks?

 

[SVTmaniac]

Restart and hold the option key, boot into recovery and format the hard drive from there. Then select reinstall OSX and it will do a clean install. You can't watch a video on YouTube of how to do it, but its simple.

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Never mind, you want to keep your apps.

 

[MUWarrior10]

Restart and hold the option key, boot into recovery and format the hard drive from there. Then select reinstall OSX and it will do a clean install. You can't watch a video on YouTube of how to do it, but its simple.

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Never mind, you want to keep your apps.

Thanks for the tip! I went ahead and did it! At the end of the day just way easier to do this way than screw around trying to keep some apps.

 

[SVTmaniac]

Thanks for the tip! I went ahead and did it! At the end of the day just way easier to do this way than screw around trying to keep some apps.

Glad it worked for you, I just noticed the typo in my original post. It should have said you CAN watch a video of it on YouTube, not can't, but I'm sure you figured that out.