thanks, Ricardo. I was surprised too. The problem may have occurred because it took longer to erase than I thought, so it actually finished after I'd gone to bed. So there may have been a prompt that I missed or something. Cheers, Donna
On Sep 16, 2011, at 8:09 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Yes, > > That is exactly what I thought would happen. I'm surprise it didn't. Try > this, Restart the mbp and press command R again. The recovery partition for > Lion might still be there. If your able to boot into that, you should be > able to download and reinstall Lion via wifi. I believe this was 1 of the > options in that table. > > Ricardo Walker > rwalker...@gmail.com > Twitter & Skype: rwalker296 > www.mobileaccess.org > > On Sep 16, 2011, at 8:01 AM, Donna Goodin wrote: > >> 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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