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Restore to factory settings.

I purchased an iMac from my neighbor. How do I prepare this Mac for my use.

Posted on Aug 24, 2020 8:35 AM

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Posted on Aug 24, 2020 8:40 AM

Reboot and hold CMD+R on your keyboard until you see the Apple logo.

Then at the macOS Recovery, click on Disk Utility, click on your Disk Partition (Most likely named Macintosh HD), click erase.

Next, quit DU;

Go to reinstall macOS/OS X, and install.

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