Topic: How to 'reset'/reformat Powerbook

[Pablo]

Not that I feel the dire need to, but as this is my first venture into the Apple world in over 15 years, I am curious as to what I would do to get my Powebook (17") to the same status it came from the factory.

In Windows, I would put the OS cd in the drive, re-boot to that disc, then re-format & re-install.

How is this handled with OS X?

 

[MacBandit]

Re: Topic: How to 'reset'/reformat Powerbook

Originally posted by Pablo
Not that I feel the dire need to, but as this is my first venture into the Apple world in over 15 years, I am curious as to what I would do to get my Powebook (17") to the same status it came from the factory.

In Windows, I would put the OS cd in the drive, re-boot to that disc, then re-format & re-install.

How is this handled with OS X?

The exact same way.

 

[Pablo]

So the powerbook will attempt to boot to the optical drive before the fixed hard drive?

Thanks for the information.

 

[mnkeybsness]

you just need to hold down 'C' when rebooting with the disc in the drive. then you are given the option to reformat and install...you will need to reformat/erase the drive in the disk utility program File>Open Disk Utility. then just re-install.