Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.
Boot to the recovery partition by pressing and holding for a few seconds command-r as you hear the chime. Give it a minute then launch VoiceOver with Command-F5. Since you said you want to start from scratch you may want to open Disc Utility and erase the Macintosh HD partition so nothing is on it. After that you can run Mac Os X Installer and reinstall Mavericks or whatever is on that recovery partition. Good luck. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 14/05/2014 19:00, Nektarios Mallas wrote: Hay guys. I am helping a friend who tries to learn the mac as a new user. Other people made changes and did things to her computer before I was involved with this, and I would like to start over from the beginning as if the computer was brand new. What is the easiest and fastest way to get there? Do I need to reinstall mavericks again? If yes, do I have to download it from the App Store? Any help is always appreciated. Nektarios. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.
Hi. Will it actually download everything from the Internet or is the installer on the recovery partition? On May 14, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: > Boot to the recovery partition by pressing and holding for a few seconds > command-r as you hear the chime. Give it a minute then launch VoiceOver with > Command-F5. Since you said you want to start from scratch you may want to > open Disc Utility and erase the Macintosh HD partition so nothing is on it. > After that you can run Mac Os X Installer and reinstall Mavericks or whatever > is on that recovery partition. Good luck. > > Christopher Hallsworth > Student at the Hadley School for the Blind > www.hadley.edu > > On 14/05/2014 19:00, Nektarios Mallas wrote: >> Hay guys. >> I am helping a friend who tries to learn the mac as a new user. >> Other people made changes and did things to her computer before I was >> involved with this, and I would like to start over from the beginning as if >> the computer was brand new. >> What is the easiest and fastest way to get there? >> Do I need to reinstall mavericks again? If yes, do I have to download it >> from the App Store? >> Any help is always appreciated. >> >> Nektarios. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.
The installer is on the recovery partition but it will download the image from Apple's servers once you've entered your Apple Id. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 14/05/2014 19:29, Nektarios Mallas wrote: Hi. Will it actually download everything from the Internet or is the installer on the recovery partition? On May 14, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: Boot to the recovery partition by pressing and holding for a few seconds command-r as you hear the chime. Give it a minute then launch VoiceOver with Command-F5. Since you said you want to start from scratch you may want to open Disc Utility and erase the Macintosh HD partition so nothing is on it. After that you can run Mac Os X Installer and reinstall Mavericks or whatever is on that recovery partition. Good luck. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 14/05/2014 19:00, Nektarios Mallas wrote: Hay guys. I am helping a friend who tries to learn the mac as a new user. Other people made changes and did things to her computer before I was involved with this, and I would like to start over from the beginning as if the computer was brand new. What is the easiest and fastest way to get there? Do I need to reinstall mavericks again? If yes, do I have to download it from the App Store? Any help is always appreciated. Nektarios. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.
Ok. thanks very much. Nektarios. On May 14, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Christopher Hallsworth wrote: > The installer is on the recovery partition but it will download the image > from Apple's servers once you've entered your Apple Id. > > Christopher Hallsworth > Student at the Hadley School for the Blind > www.hadley.edu > > On 14/05/2014 19:29, Nektarios Mallas wrote: >> Hi. >> Will it actually download everything from the Internet or is the installer >> on the recovery partition? >> >> On May 14, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Christopher Hallsworth >> wrote: >> >>> Boot to the recovery partition by pressing and holding for a few seconds >>> command-r as you hear the chime. Give it a minute then launch VoiceOver >>> with Command-F5. Since you said you want to start from scratch you may want >>> to open Disc Utility and erase the Macintosh HD partition so nothing is on >>> it. After that you can run Mac Os X Installer and reinstall Mavericks or >>> whatever is on that recovery partition. Good luck. >>> >>> Christopher Hallsworth >>> Student at the Hadley School for the Blind >>> www.hadley.edu >>> >>> On 14/05/2014 19:00, Nektarios Mallas wrote: Hay guys. I am helping a friend who tries to learn the mac as a new user. Other people made changes and did things to her computer before I was involved with this, and I would like to start over from the beginning as if the computer was brand new. What is the easiest and fastest way to get there? Do I need to reinstall mavericks again? If yes, do I have to download it from the App Store? Any help is always appreciated. Nektarios. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
