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    Factory Restore on a Air

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by ZaZ, Mar 28, 2012.

  1. ZaZ

    ZaZ Super Model Super Moderator

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    I have this Air I want to do a factory restore on. The Air doesn't seem to come with any media. When I do the restore on it from the recovery partition, it re-installs the OS, but keeps everything else. How can I wipe the drive and do a fresh install? Thanks for any help.
     
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  2. Ryan

    Ryan NBR Moderator

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    Boot into the recovery partition, and run the disk utility to format the drive,

    then do the install of OS and it will be a factory state. ;)
     
    Ryan, Mar 28, 2012
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    kornchild2002 Notebook Deity

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    Right. The Air has a ~600MB partition (as do all Mac's that come pre-installed with Lion) that contains the Disk Utility and a few other things. Re-installilng OS X Lion will require an internet connection though as the setup process will have to download it all over again. The whole thing is pretty painless though.
     
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    Thanks. I'll give it a whirl. I did see that on another site, but I just wanted to confirm with the Macophiles.
     
    ZaZ, Mar 29, 2012
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