Want to do a factory reset of my Macbook Pro. Help!

[soamz]

Hi..
Im setting out to my hometown for 5 days and all of my stuff are on my iMac.


I dont know, how to copy all settings ,etc from iMac straight to the Macbook Pro..


As far as I think, the only way is first to reset the Macbook Pro.
Take a Time Machine backup from the iMac.

And then restore the copy to the Macbook Pro.

Is that the only way left for me ?

And how do we factory reset the macbook pro, so everything gets deleted and becomes new and ready for a new Tim Machine restore.

Let me know..

 

[DannySmurf]

Reinstall the system on the Macbook Pro using your recovery disks. Then, in the post-install setup, when it asks you if you want to transfer your data and applications from another computer, hook the two together with a firewire cable and let it do the transfer.

Or you can use the iMac's Time Machine backup in place of the machine-to-machine transfer.

 

[soamz]

Isnt it there a key or option in the macbook Pro which can delete the whole MACINTOSH HD , and just leave the system OS .

Then I can just connect my Time Machine backuo drive and select
,
TRANSFER DATA FROM DIFF MAC USING TIME MACHINE.

Possible ?

 

[DannySmurf]

Isnt it there a key or option in the macbook Pro which can delete the whole MACINTOSH HD , and just leave the system OS .

Yes. The recovery disk.

Without reinstalling, you can create a second account and use the Migration Assistant to transfer data in. But that is not a "factory reset."

 

[soamz]

Ok thanks man..
Will give it a try!