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Wipe MacBook Pro

Intelligent

Intelligent

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Aug 7, 2013
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Hey, i just got some (3) Macbook Pros from my moms work, they were going to throw them away but i got them for free, now they all had leopard/snow leopard pre installed, with an account i can't get into. How do i wipe them and install some os over, i have tiger, leopard and snow leopard cds.
 
Intelligent said:
Hey, i just got some (3) Macbook Pros from my moms work, they were going to throw them away but i got them for free, now they all had leopard/snow leopard pre installed, with an account i can't get into. How do i wipe them and install some os over, i have tiger, leopard and snow leopard cds.
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Assuming here all three machines will run Snow Leopard and also assuming you have the retail Snow Leopard disk (not the grey one that comes with a new Mac)... you can hold the C key when booting to boot to the Snow Leopard disk. Once booted to the SL disk, start Disk Utility and select the drive brand name at the very top above Macintosh HD and erase the disk to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Then quit Disk Utility and click install OS.
 
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