I'm going to sell my Macbook Pro and want to remove all of the data before doing so. I have the OS Lion installed but my machine came with Snow Leopard. How can I remove everything and restore it to basically just the OS without losing Lion? I want to sell the machine with Lion. Thanks.
MacOS – How to erase the data from the Macbook without losing the recent OS
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Best Answer
Apple provides instructions on erasing and reinstalling OS X, so the system will be as it was when it came from the factory: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4439
These instructions guide you through reformatting the drive and reinstalling OS X via Recovery.