How difficult would it be to open the MBA and remove the drive? The drive, once out of the MBA, could be attached to a drive-to-USB connector and you could attach it to another Mac and nuke it from there. Alternatively you could keep the old drive as a backup and replace it with a new drive.
If this MBA has a SSD, then this probably won't work. On 10 Jan 2013, at 23:14 , Jeff Weinberger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi: > > My wife's old Macbook Air's screen broke (actually the hinge, which has the > connector, making the screen useless), so she finally got a new one. Now a > friend of her's wants the old one (willing to pay to repair it rather than > buy one new/refurbished). > > So, I want to erase all the data, etc. and restore the air to just the OS > install. > > This is easy (start with cmd-R and reinstall) if I could see the screen, but > I can't. > > So my question: > > Is there any way to use screen sharing (or the like) to see and control the > Air while it is started in recovery mode? > > Or, alternatively, are there any other ways to erase the internal drive and > reinstall the OS? > > Any help is much appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Jeff_______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
