Hey Ricardo, Not sure if you can answer this, but the one other thing I can think of to do is to try and restore from a time-machine backup. (Not sure if this will work, since my most recent backup is now from the Air, but I figure it's worth a shot.)
Anyway, if I do that, of course all my data will be back on the machine, so I'll have to erase again. When you sent this message, you seemed to be thinking that when it was done erasing, it would reboot to a fresh install of Lion, as though it were a new machine. Do you have any ideas about what I should have done differently so that this would happened? Thanks, Donna On Aug 29, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi donna, > > If you are using Lion, a dvd is not even needed. Just restart your computer > and when you hear the start up chime, press command R. Wait a minute or 2 > and then press command f5 to start voiceover. You will now be in Lions > recovery partition. Here you choose your language and pick disk utility. In > disk utility, pick your hard drive from the table and then select the erase > tab. Follow the prompts. The next time your computer restarts, it will be > like when you turned it on the first time. > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> Okay. thanks. Sorry, but I've never formatted a disk on a Mac. >> Donna >> On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Cody wrote: >> >>> By whiping, I mean, once you've backed up all your data, put the original >>> disk taht came with the mac in, and completely format the hard drive. put >>> the disk in and reboot your mac holding down the c key until the disk >>> begins to wurr >>> On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Cody, >>>> >>>> Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how does one "wipe" the hard disk? >>>> I checked in finder, but saw no command for doing this. Should I just do >>>> one huge send to trash? >>>> Thanks, >>>> Donna >>>> >>>> On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:05 AM, Cody wrote: >>>> >>>>> Donna, if you whipe the drive and reinstall OSX 10, you should be fine. >>>>> this way you wont' have tow orry about removing your data by hand... >>>>> On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi all, >>>>>> >>>>>> If I can ever get my data over to the MBA, I'm going to be selling my >>>>>> MBP. In preparation for that, I'm wondering about the most efficacious >>>>>> way to remove my data from the MBP. Of course I can just delete things >>>>>> like documents, but I want to make sure that all my user info is also >>>>>> gone before I send it to someone else. 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