Remember to choose Disk Utility, select the internal drive, and choose Erase and security options and a number of passes you are willing to deal with. If you have a nude photo of a celebrity, or any type of digital signing certificate or anything you don't want people to ever see, you need to do the secure erase.
thank you!! did this on my 120gb mac when 98gb of it was “system storage” that you cant really get rid of without paying for a third party cleaning software, or resetting it to factory settings. i was scared it would delete the files that were really important so i put them on an external hard drive now i have 106gb available so now only 12.6gb is system storage. feeling great!
Excellent help! The steps for erasing a Mac hard disk are simple and clear, everything worked fine without any problem. Cleaned the machine and installed the latest OS smoothly. Many thanx. Apple fan for ever!
Worked! Very grateful. It did fail on the first attempt, but that was because I hadn't logged out of OSX. Tip: Make sure you log out of OSX before attempting this!
Great how to video. Short and sweet!! So many people yammer on about themselves or stuff we just don't need - or want - to hear. This guy is thorough and to the point. Worked for me.
Thanks a lot! I was searching for this answer! Because I got confused if reinstalling means re-downloading and installing or just reinstalling from the recovery
not necessarily, if from icloud then ofc but not if its from a backup drive. also you can use a bootable installer of the latest mac os (a usb) that way you wouldn't require internet for while resetting/Erasing the computer. I found out how to do this by simply searching how and following the instructions really helpful when updating a few macs at once to the latest OS
Thank you for this video! We actualy bought a very old Mac. me and my daughter are sending it back and I didn't know how to get my account removed. Again, thank you.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I'm selling my Macbook Air and literally had no idea how to factory reset. This video was super informative, and super easy to follow along to. The mac reset perfectly! Great video dude.
@@easy56wedge listen my laptop didn’t even work for more than 1 month after that and then I had to give it to repair. I recommend you to go to a shop that repairs apple products and get it done (if you have a warranty that’s a plus point for you, otherwise you will have to pay)
This Appleinsider needs to play back his guide to himself. Only then, will he realise how the whole essay needs re-jigging, as well as slowing down He needs to use questions at strategic intervals. A question does 2 things: it states a fact, and it gives a reason for the statement simultaneously. Evidently, this guy has never been a lecturer. A complete waste of his time & mine also.
This presentation was VERY helpful. I have a 12 year old MacBook Pro and was unable to wipe the hard drive until I found your guidance. I had installed a solid state drive, so the name of my hard drive was different, and I had to guess at what I needed to delete. I trust I did it correctly. My main concern was to delete my personal information from the hard drive. Thank you for providing an OUTSTANDING presentation.
Literally the easiest video to follow and instructions step by step out there for this particular situation. This is better than the Apple document I was sent over LOL
After done erasing, when i tried to redownload MacOS sierra, it doesnt let me, error code comes up - AMD-Action:downloadproduct:SP What does that mean?
...one should avoid Reinstall Mac OS, as Apple will 'force' you to install a newer version! (for obvious reasons, this should be avoided too) Most of times you cannot reinstall the OS it came from factory (if it's 2 versions old)! Hence the errors, which I also got :(
Thank bejesus that I found this video the past year I’ve had to deal with some pretty crappy stuff happening with my computer so I’ve been meaning to reset it forever and this helped greatly 👍🏻
I DID AL THIS BUT MY PROBLEM IS WHEN IT COMES TO THE POINT TO LOGIN YOUR APPLE ID I CANT CAUSE I DONT KNOW IT ANYMORE ITS HAS BEEN FIRST TIME SINDS 4 YEARS I USE THIS LAPTOP AND THOUGHT JUST TOTALLY CLEAN IT, WHAT DO I NEED TO DO PLEEASSE HELPP
I am currently running MacOS Mojave on my computer, and am having some crashing issues so I would like to do a factory reset. I would like to reinstall Mojave and not Big Sur; will my Mac automatically try to get a newer operating system, or will it reinstall the last version it had on it?
COMAND + R did not restart my Mac, you have to restart it likd you normally would and once it starts to restart THEN you hold COMAND+R Thanks for the thorough video!
@Amie manneh for older MacBooks you have to hold the power button until it turns off and then hold COMMAND + R and then press the power button while you’re still holding command R
there is no “macintosh HD” hard drive showing up, there’s “ST9500325ASG Media” which always fails to erase and “Untitled 1” which is apparently not mounted. help?
on the left side of the disk utilities there is a drop down section on the left top of the window called "view" , from the drop down, select "show all devices" instead of preselected "Show only volumes" then under internal click on the highest drive available usually named a random number word sequence then erase that disk. also make sure that the "format" is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and the scheme is GUID Partition Map and give it a name then erase it should work let me know if there are any other problems :)
@Rick Koster whats wrong? because I also went through the process with a lot of things going wrong and eventually i searched up how to make a bootable mac os usb for it and it worked like a charm. try making one and plug it in before turning on the computer than following the steps.
I tried this and it wouldn’t let me reinstall macos, now i just have a black screen with a blinking question mark. HELP i know nothing about computers 😭😂
thank you for the tuts. what should be done if the pop up windows tell you that installer information on the recovery server is damaged? after trying to reinstall macos
Everytime I do CMD + R or hold down the option key on boot (both methods) it takes me to Internet Recovery Mode, and it takes to me OSX Utility but it's not the MacOS Extended one it's a different one to create a partition I need help!
There are several things for Mac speed ups easily Use the Activity Monitor. If you want to see what apps are using up your system, open the Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Turn off visual effects. Most Macs are now capable of running Mac OS X Mavericks. Keep updating your software (and it set to auto update) Clean up your hard drive. (I read these and why they work from Achak Speed Plan site )
Once I accidentally deleted everything... even the main software. Since my internet was slow I had to wait 14 hours for it to completely reinstall. Bad day. 😭
For those living in the future, AFPS = Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Thank you!
thank you! lol
Thank you. I got stuck until I read your comment.
just installing Mojave now :)
1Thank you
Video starts at 2:43 guys
Stereohearts R&B thx lol
Thansk bro
we also want to know how to back it up lol
@Justin Bill scam!
Not all heros wear capes.
My Mac was slowing down + I found this after other complicated videos
Gets right to the point + very informative 10/10
Thank you
2:40 Where wiping and restore your mac starts.
muchos gracias
thank you
Totally.
Thanks, 90% video about making backup, wtf
Thank you, good gosh.......
2:40 is the part about resetting it after how to backup for those who are just here to reset like myself :)
Remember to choose Disk Utility, select the internal drive, and choose Erase and security options and a number of passes you are willing to deal with.
If you have a nude photo of a celebrity, or any type of digital signing certificate or anything you don't want people to ever see, you need to do the secure erase.
Nude photo made me chuckle haha! :) Good advice too! :D
Needs up upvotes
What’s command and R keys?
Ambigous Barrel does it have to be connected to the wifi for it to work?
thank you!! did this on my 120gb mac when 98gb of it was “system storage” that you cant really get rid of without paying for a third party cleaning software, or resetting it to factory settings. i was scared it would delete the files that were really important so i put them on an external hard drive
now i have 106gb available so now only 12.6gb is system storage. feeling great!
lol im just resetting to make my computer look clean again, i do it every once in a while.
lol im doing this for school
same lol
Same here my computer is so slowww
xD me too
If u reset ur mac alot it can get damaged
My wife said I should tell you "thank you for your helpful video"... So Thank you for your helpful video!
You're welcome :)
Excellent help! The steps for erasing a Mac hard disk are simple and clear, everything worked fine without any problem. Cleaned the machine and installed the latest OS smoothly. Many thanx. Apple fan for ever!
in case 'command + r' doesn't work, try hold 'control + r', hope this helps!
great video!
love how the title of this video is "How to Erase and Factory Reset your Mac!" yet 3 quarters of the vid is showing how to back up.
BREEZEFORE 🤣🤣
So the video starts at 2:40 then, lol.
Yeah foreal ahahaha dude is an idiot
@@huluplus2813 backing up stuff you need is really important lol. he's only trying to help out, no way near an idiot. :)
this is what it means my erasing the computer, Throwing all your storage in your USB and there
Worked! Very grateful.
It did fail on the first attempt, but that was because I hadn't logged out of OSX.
Tip: Make sure you log out of OSX before attempting this!
Great how to video. Short and sweet!! So many people yammer on about themselves or stuff we just don't need - or want - to hear. This guy is thorough and to the point. Worked for me.
Extremely helpful! Did this on my macbook pro 2017 that had MULTIPLE panic screens in a day. Your video totally saved my mac! Thank you 🙏
Apple 🍏 makes it harder than it should be. Thanks for the details.
Very important!!! you need to be connected to the internet in order to reinstall the macOS!
Thanks a lot! I was searching for this answer!
Because I got confused if reinstalling means re-downloading and installing or just reinstalling from the recovery
me too thank god i didnt do it t'l i got connected
Haris Sajid Wd
Thanks. This guy is a fool to not mention that.
not necessarily, if from icloud then ofc but not if its from a backup drive. also you can use a bootable installer of the latest mac os (a usb) that way you wouldn't require internet for while resetting/Erasing the computer. I found out how to do this by simply searching how and following the instructions really helpful when updating a few macs at once to the latest OS
This was a great video, especially for a gen-x person like me, who prefers the good old '87 Macintosh. Thanks again!
Thank you for this video! We actualy bought a very old Mac. me and my daughter are sending it back and I didn't know how to get my account removed. Again, thank you.
I have a trojan virus and this helped a dozen thanks a lot!
I used zoom once, my networking has never been the same. I'm reseting my laptop because of this.
Same. It made some system changes. No bueno.
ThankU so much!!!
I saw a lot of videos and none of them helps me and yours did
Thanks so Much!!!!
fantastic, thanks, more detail than any other restore vid or article i've seen
Thank you so much for this tutorial! I'm selling my Macbook Air and literally had no idea how to factory reset. This video was super informative, and super easy to follow along to. The mac reset perfectly! Great video dude.
Could you just guide me through cause i have watched so many videos and the command r thing isn’t working for me :(
@@archikarekar2120 My curser stuck when Disk Utility was selected. I can't select Macintosh HD... now what!?
@@easy56wedge listen my laptop didn’t even work for more than 1 month after that and then I had to give it to repair. I recommend you to go to a shop that repairs apple products and get it done (if you have a warranty that’s a plus point for you, otherwise you will have to pay)
Your video saved my life- thank you!
Thank you. Very thorough!
hey hows it going
This Appleinsider needs to play back his guide to himself.
Only then, will he realise how the whole essay needs re-jigging, as well as slowing down
He needs to use questions at strategic intervals. A question does 2 things: it states a fact, and it gives a reason for the statement simultaneously. Evidently, this guy has never been a lecturer.
A complete waste of his time & mine also.
okay david hall like who tf are you calm down my guy
Mathpoo
Hi I’m a big fan. I got to say this is the most random place to run into you!
What if I don’t see “ Mac OS extended journal”?? Please help
Unending appreciation my friend! Very kind of you to share.
Bro thanks I got like about 1100 viruses on my Mac and now they're gone you're such a life saver
1100 viruses on a MAC!?
Tyler XM how the fuck did you achieve that
Most straight forward video ever, gives me more informations I needed. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
This presentation was VERY helpful. I have a 12 year old MacBook Pro and was unable to wipe the hard drive until I found your guidance. I had installed a solid state drive, so the name of my hard drive was different, and I had to guess at what I needed to delete. I trust I did it correctly. My main concern was to delete my personal information from the hard drive. Thank you for providing an OUTSTANDING presentation.
Omg thank goodness I found this vid. Couldn’t find 1 article that included all the details.
Thanks dog. Commenting to boost your engagement
Thank you. My Air had APFS. I had to look that up. You could add that to your information.
Literally the easiest video to follow and instructions step by step out there for this particular situation. This is better than the Apple document I was sent over LOL
I rewinded and paused this video so much😂 but hey I worked! Thank you
You & me the same. I wanted to make sure I was following the instructions step by step.
Thank you. Take care and stay safe.
Thanks so much at first I was confused at what keys to press to Reset/erase my Mac! Did everything will 10/10 guide for Mac users
Extremely helpful. Thank you.
Thanks, this worked just fine for MacOS 13 Beta
Thanks! Didn’t get the command R part from written tutorials so this was helpful!
New owner? with the shit that apple releases now, i'm wiping my old mac to have a normal machine i can do some work on...
I'm wiping it to install windows via boot camp. I miss Windows so much
This saved my life
My Mac hasn’t been working right for the past year due to finder basically breaking and this finally helped me fix it. Thanks
do it works when u restore from time machine my finder had done broke too
Very informative. Thanks. Just got rid of my 2010 and took the new 2018 mac.
great explanation
Brilliant! Worked on Early-2014 MacBook Air, 11-inch
It end up saying thos item is yemporaily unavailable
Dawn I wish I watched your video instead of the other one which lost me the Macintosh HD and now I'm desperately trying to troubleshoot
After done erasing, when i tried to redownload MacOS sierra, it doesnt let me, error code comes up - AMD-Action:downloadproduct:SP
What does that mean?
...one should avoid Reinstall Mac OS, as Apple will 'force' you to install a newer version! (for obvious reasons, this should be avoided too)
Most of times you cannot reinstall the OS it came from factory (if it's 2 versions old)!
Hence the errors, which I also got :(
you need to be connection to the internett
It’s not working for me either and I’m connected to the internet
Get a PC no more having to do what apple wants you to do.
@@rvcasa how did you fix it ?
This was the perfect amount of info, thank you
Sofia Barrientos
Command R does not work for me ... any advise? My computer is now on MacOS Catalina ... it’s a MacBook Pro 2014 ... please help :)
Sofia Barrientos you have to press N hold for the whole time while your computer restating
Sunny Lin what about late 2008 MacBook ? Command r don’t work for me
hold command r and the power button
You have to first restart you laptop and then hold down "Command + R"
Simply shutting it down will not work
Sunny Lin thank you!
Thank bejesus that I found this video the past year I’ve had to deal with some pretty crappy stuff happening with my computer so I’ve been meaning to reset it forever and this helped greatly 👍🏻
Thanks mate, this was great.
Thanks a lot..worked perfectly 🙂
when i press command R, it goes right back to desktop. no utility page.
Is this true
I think he missed a command key
Try option+command+r
Sometimes it’s cmd + s
same i press cmd r and nothing happens
When you want to get the directions to wipe and have to watch a 2 minute video about backing it up
Thank you so much! It took me about 30 mins but I did it, super easy 👍🏽
2:44 from then on is all I need
Great video !
thanks man, Now to reset my moms laptop cause she sat on my sunglasses
LOL
So when you deauthorize it that means that you’re removing your apple ID from that computer?
Great video, thank you.
Thanks for the help! Very simple and to the point!
If the command r does not work try command option r - this worked for mine.
*dylentools on Îñstägrăm* successfully UNLOCKED my macbook pro he's awesome 🥰
I DID AL THIS BUT MY PROBLEM IS WHEN IT COMES TO THE POINT TO LOGIN YOUR APPLE ID I CANT CAUSE I DONT KNOW IT ANYMORE ITS HAS BEEN FIRST TIME SINDS 4 YEARS I USE THIS LAPTOP AND THOUGHT JUST TOTALLY CLEAN IT, WHAT DO I NEED TO DO PLEEASSE HELPP
DutchGamingCoDx | Fifa 15 & COD Video's ! Pressed forgot password and if you still don’t know then call app
when I hold command and R key on my MacBook Pro it's not taking me to disk utility instead it's taking me to internet recovery
Bright Badon me too, have you figured it out?
Thanks so much, very helpful!
When I click erase there’s still 56gb worth of “other volumes” that doesn’t get erased...
When “reinstalling macOS” do I need a usb or cd to reinstall?
thanks very useful method
I wish you had said "Skip to 2:40" at the beginning :) Would have saved a lot of time :)
agreed and thanks. i was actually scrolling on the comment section for the actual starting time
Why this is not working with Mojave? I finished erase hard drive but can't reinstall mac os
make sure you are connected to a WIFI
Thanks for this.
For some odd reason this is not working for the MacBook Pro 2011
Charmins World same here, I have the pro 2011 and nothing works
i have the mac book air mid 2013 and its not working either
I am currently running MacOS Mojave on my computer, and am having some crashing issues so I would like to do a factory reset. I would like to reinstall Mojave and not Big Sur; will my Mac automatically try to get a newer operating system, or will it reinstall the last version it had on it?
thanks! just did this for mine and this was a straight forward explanation of how to do it! 😎👍🏻
you're welcome :)
I did this on a school computer, and I’m stuck on the log in screen. Pls help!
Lool
Reece James how is that funny
Lmaoofaoo mans a savage LOL
Great video but I 2:45 you forget to mention to turn off the Mac so o figure out myself and my Mac is now like new 💪 thanks.
I’ve done everything except I can’t access my accounts on iTunes ! I think my MacBook is too old (2011)help lol
Bianca A. me too
Same!
Awsome it works thanks
COMAND + R did not restart my Mac, you have to restart it likd you normally would and once it starts to restart THEN you hold COMAND+R
Thanks for the thorough video!
The command and R didn’t work for me
Update: Nevermind. It took a few tries but it worked eventually.
Hold them down and turn on the computer and continue to hold the command and r till you see a pop up
@Amie manneh for older MacBooks you have to hold the power button until it turns off and then hold COMMAND + R and then press the power button while you’re still holding command R
You have to press restart first then hold down the command and R button. I had to figure that part out.
Cici Bracken that still didn’t work for me :/
After erasing disk I press reinstall macOS it says “The recovery server could not be contacted”
Same what is the solution for this ?
@@anuragreddy3207 You need to be connected to the internet - go to the upper bar and add wifi
Thank you!!
Great informative video
You need WiFi to install macOS, that’s if you’re on a 2011 Mac
there is no “macintosh HD” hard drive showing up, there’s “ST9500325ASG Media” which always fails to erase and “Untitled 1” which is apparently not mounted. help?
Johnathan Florsheim same did you figure it out
on the left side of the disk utilities there is a drop down section on the left top of the window called "view" , from the drop down, select "show all devices" instead of preselected "Show only volumes" then under internal click on the highest drive available usually named a random number word sequence then erase that disk. also make sure that the "format" is "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" and the scheme is GUID Partition Map and give it a name then erase it should work let me know if there are any other problems :)
@Rick Koster whats wrong? because I also went through the process with a lot of things going wrong and eventually i searched up how to make a bootable mac os usb for it and it worked like a charm. try making one and plug it in before turning on the computer than following the steps.
cool bro
Hi there. Do you know why my “erase” button in the disk utility may be greyed out? I can’t find any way to erase the computer
The Sierra update fucked up my computer
Same I have a Mac air 2011 and it keeps glitching omg
SAME THING FOR ME RIGHT AFTER I UPDATED MY MAC ITS BEEN SLOWER AND LAGGY!
Is downgrading a solution and possible ? What are my options now ?
Vineet Avasthi downgrading is an option.
when i updated to mac os high sierra it restarted and there was just a black screen thats it
When i am about to delete the macintosh hd I have two: external and internal drive
I dont know wich one to delete or both of them
Pleasee heelp!!!
I tried this and it wouldn’t let me reinstall macos, now i just have a black screen with a blinking question mark. HELP i know nothing about computers 😭😂
Hard drive connection may be slack or the wire needs to change
Hey did you ever figure this out it’s happening to me
Rylie Brown me too today 2011 Mac book pro 13
when you reset your MacBook and you have a virus on it, will it be gone?
If you had erased the macintosh drive before installing, then sure, everything will be gone
How tf do u have a virus it’s a apple
Jylup i have one too
@@jylup4057 to much porn I guess
thank you for the tuts. what should be done if the pop up windows tell you that installer information on the recovery server is damaged? after trying to reinstall macos
i tried following along and i think i broke the computers
lol same
Me too 😭😭😭
Amazing video! Thanks for creating it!
Everytime I do CMD + R or hold down the option key on boot (both methods) it takes me to Internet Recovery Mode, and it takes to me OSX Utility but it's not the MacOS Extended one it's a different one to create a partition I need help!
same
There are several things for Mac speed ups easily
Use the Activity Monitor. If you want to see what apps are using up your system, open the Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder.
Turn off visual effects. Most Macs are now capable of running Mac OS X Mavericks.
Keep updating your software (and it set to auto update)
Clean up your hard drive.
(I read these and why they work from Achak Speed Plan site )
مر ياحلو
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I have spent months studying speeding up Macs and discovered an awesome resource at Mels Speed Method.
Um so I think I did something wrong when I turn it on a file with a question mark appears... rip MacBook
did you ever figure this out? cause mikes doing that right now..
mine is the same rip
Same here
thanks you saved my life !
Command + R didn't work 😤
try option + command + r
Rebecca S that doesn’t work for me either
You have to hold it down until it shows
You restart first manually and then hold command and r together. It worked for me
I gotta say, Windows is better for once. This seems too hard for what it is
not really that hard
Once I accidentally deleted everything... even the main software. Since my internet was slow I had to wait 14 hours for it to completely reinstall. Bad day. 😭
How did you reinstall
@@antonyburgos9871 internet recovery mode