How To Erase Macbook Pro 2011

1 access finder menu by clicking on the dock icon.

How to erase macbook pro 2011. Start by shutting your macbook off. If the mac is running high sierra or later disk utility will show all the macs linked with your apple id under macintosh hd. The sidebar now shows your disks devices and any containers. Select the format option mac extended.

Select the internal storage disk in the left hand menu. You can also access it through spotlight. 2 on the left click applications scroll down a bit to. Open disk utility to begin the disk erasing process.

What to do before you sell give away or trade in your mac. Sign out of imessage. Format your hard drive on macbook pro. Make sure you do this before you hear the startup sound.

How to erase your disk. See troubleshooting for more information on which format to select. Click the erase button at the top of the disk utility window. Click disk utility and click continue.

Lets say you wish to erase only a particular partition volume instead of the entire hard disk. Click on the erase button at the top of the disk utility this brings up our disk formatting options. During the boot sequence hold down command r until you see the apple logo click disk utility when the menu appears click continue and then startup disk select erase from the top menu and mac os extended from the popup menu that appears. Wait for the macos utilities screen to appear then click disk utility.

Start up from macos recovery. If youre not erasing the disk your mac. Hold the keys together for a. Choose view show all devices from the menu bar in disk utility.

Then you need to enter name and format of the drive. Select the disk to erase. Sign out of icloud. Choose your macs system drive usually named macintosh hd then click erase.

Sign out of itunes in macos mojave or earlier. To erase everything on your mac you usually should choose the main hard drive named macintosh hd. If your mac is using hfs select mac os extended journaled from the format list. If your mac is using apfs select apfs from the format list.

Erase all data from macbook pro. Then select disk utility from the utilities window and click continue. Restart and quickly press the cmd and the r keys together. So be careful not to delete the drive of other macs.

Go to applications utilities disk.