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Reset the New iMac

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Mercurial11

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Nov 15, 2012
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I need to completely erasing and restore the new iMac so that all the items I have put on there are gone.

Since there is no Boot Disk to do this.... does anyone know how to do it?
 
On a side rant: Apple you cheap screws...for the new year,at least give us the option to buy a usb stick with mountain lion install...we don't all have blazing internet speeds,and i really can find better things to do then wait 2 hr for it to download!

rant over...
 
Why i suggest all new owners of apple computers install either superduper or carbon copy and clone harddrive to external hd,or usb stick....then if you ever have to reinstall you just hold option key with said hd/usb stick and boot from that and then reclone back to internal hd...
 
NVRENUF! said:
I wish it was 2 hours. With a decent internet connection mine came up and said 15 hours to go :/
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Apple really do need to provide USB stick support..Trouble is, we can make them for free ourselves....Apple have to run a production line for them, and I'm guessing that the experiment with Lion didn't go so well.

I do feel for folks with slow BB though....I bask in the luxury of 120MB, but I know that 400 yards up the lane, they are still stuck with copper-wire ISP's.
 
ditto

tom vilsack said:
On a side rant: Apple you cheap screws...for the new year,at least give us the option to buy a usb stick with mountain lion install...we don't all have blazing internet speeds,and i really can find better things to do then wait 2 hr for it to download!

rant over...
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had to do the same myself, about 2 hrs for me too.
 
blevins321 said:
Hold the option key on boot and go into the recovery partition. You'll then be able to download the new OS.
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I held down the Option key and then it went to screen that had an Icon of the HD on it a and network selection drop down box. However, when I clicked the HD icon it just booted up, it did not give the option of going into the recovery partition or download a new OS.

Any clarification would be appreciated.

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Mercurial11 said:
I held down the Option key and then it went to screen that had an Icon of the HD on it a and network selection drop down box. However, when I clicked the HD icon it just booted up, it did not give the option of going into the recovery partition or download a new OS.

Any clarification would be appreciated.
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It looks like you hold down the command R key, not the option key :)
 
How much space is used up when it is fresh out of the box? I'm thinking about cloning mine to a USB stick when I first start it up. Will that work and be bootable? What size USB stick would I need?

Edit:
This is already answered on Apple's website: 1GB
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848
 
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tom vilsack said:
Why i suggest all new owners of apple computers install either superduper or carbon copy and clone harddrive to external hd,or usb stick....then if you ever have to reinstall you just hold option key with said hd/usb stick and boot from that and then reclone back to internal hd...
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SuperDuper is about the first thing I install on a new Mac (any mac) and make a boot clone to HDD then put the HDD in a locked cabinet.

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RhinoMac said:
How much space is used up when it is fresh out of the box? I'm thinking about cloning mine to a USB stick when I first start it up. Will that work and be bootable? What size USB stick would I need?
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iirc it's about 18 gb for the whole disk
 
I tried all the buttons, but only the main HD appears and no recovery partition or something :(
I really want to erase the 2012 iMac before I send it back, please help guys :)
 
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