Macbooks How to wipe data and restore to factory setting without disk?

dalaohu

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dalaohu

no one knows?

zhanglianwei

if you are lion, hold opt key when start up, then you will boot to disk utility, then try find there?

dalaohu

Is that a clean install and factory reset?

I'm selling one. Need a clean factory bang

zn7726

就是重装系统吧?
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT32 ... CN&locale=zh_CN

dalaohu的mbp要出手了? 打听一下能卖多少?

dalaohu

it's MBA, doesn't come with any install DISK

dalaohu

I am returning a 2011 MacBook Air running Lion and need to wipe all data and do a full-restore back to factory settings... How do I do that? I've found the Command-R-on-startup option to get to the Mac OS X Utilities screen, but here's where I am not quite sure what to do next...

Since Apple so brilliantly no longer include a USB stick with the OS for the new Air, I can't use Disk Utilities to wipe the hard drive. At least, I haven't found a way yet... Everytime I tried, I get an error message saying that there's only 1 partition and that it can't be erased.

The other option is to just reinstall the OS without first zeroing out the hard drive, which I don't want to do. Besides, if I reinstall the OS, I'd have to create another user-account and such... which isn't the same thing as just resetting it to factory settings.

So... any thoughts on how I can accomplish this task? This seems like it should just be a really simple process, but is so needlessly complicated!

Poweregg

mba早期有usb恢复记忆棒的吧
后期的好像是云恢复了？启动，选择什么，联网下os？

dalaohu

yea, the old model use to have usb sticks

but not anymore for the new models..... wondering how the FxxK do I do a clean reinstall inc iLife without having to use my pirated copies.....

zn7726

原帖由 dalaohu 于 2011-11-11 15:32 发表

重装系统的时候, 没有选项让你格式化硬盘吗?

MBA应该有带一个U盘放预装系统的.

dalaohu

原帖由 zn7726 于 2011-11-11 15:46 发表


重装系统的时候, 没有选项让你格式化硬盘吗?

MBA应该有带一个U盘放预装系统的.

No.. the 2011 model doesn't come with anything, no USB sticks, no disks....

zn7726

原帖由 dalaohu 于 2011-11-11 15:49 发表

No.. the 2011 model doesn't come with anything, no USB sticks, no disks....

你还买了2011款的MBA ... 生活太太太滋润了 ~~~

网上下载的狮子, 能装到U盘里吗?

dalaohu

这不准备出手了吗。
我的lion是盗版的

要不我去genius bar问问吧

zn7726

原帖由 dalaohu 于 2011-11-11 17:17 发表
这不准备出手了吗。
我的lion是盗版的

要不我去genius bar问问吧

mbp有没有送雪豹的系统安装盘? 把那个镜像考到U盘里, 引导试试.

dalaohu

引道好了也没用啊' 还是要装lion呀

dalaohu

The MacBook Air 2011 does not come with an installation CD or USB stick, and, as mentioned in a previous post, does not (for the moment) work with the standard version of Lion which Apple sells in their store, or any version of Snow Leopard.

dalaohu

As it turns out, there are two built-in methods of reinstalling. One is the recovery partition. The other is Internet recovery. (Both require internet access, however.)

As part of Lion installation, a small partition of the drive is created which contains “Mac OS X Utilities”. This the same program that runs when you boot a Lion install disk directly, and which lets you restore from Time Machine, go to Disk Utililty, etc.

You access this partition by either holding down cmd-R during startup, or by holding down option and choosing the partition from among the bootable volumes. If you elect to install (or reinstall) Lion, the actual Lion installer is first downloaded from the internet; the computer then reboots to continue the installation.

If there is no recovery partition — say, for example, because you replaced the stock SSD a higher-capacity internal SSD, and it sees no other bootable partitions, when you hold down option at startup it will say “network install” and give you a popup to join a WiFi network. When you do this, it downloads the contents of the recovery partition to a RAM disk, letting you then use Disk Utility and/or kick off the Mac OS X installation process.

I’ll just repeat that again: the new MacBook Airs (and the new Mac mini) can, with a completely bare hard drive, go out on the internet and get what it needs to install the whole operating system.

1000

Air 可以用其他macbook的光驱无线装系统。manual里有写怎么做。

dalaohu

Air 用得Lion是定制的，retail的Lion，雪豹根本就不能装的。