Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hay guys. I am helping a friend who tries to learn the mac as a new user. Other people made changes and did things to her computer before I was involved with this, and I would like to start over from the beginning as if the computer was brand new. What is the easiest and fastest way to get

Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
Boot to the recovery partition by pressing and holding for a few seconds command-r as you hear the chime. Give it a minute then launch VoiceOver with Command-F5. Since you said you want to start from scratch you may want to open Disc Utility and erase the Macintosh HD partition so nothing is

Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Hi. Will it actually download everything from the Internet or is the installer on the recovery partition? On May 14, 2014, at 9:26 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: Boot to the recovery partition by pressing and holding for a few seconds command-r as you hear the

Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Christopher Hallsworth
The installer is on the recovery partition but it will download the image from Apple's servers once you've entered your Apple Id. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the Hadley School for the Blind www.hadley.edu On 14/05/2014 19:29, Nektarios Mallas wrote: Hi. Will it actually download

Re: Restoring a macbook in its original factory setting.

2014-05-14 Thread Nektarios Mallas
Ok. thanks very much. Nektarios. On May 14, 2014, at 9:44 PM, Christopher Hallsworth christopher...@gmail.com wrote: The installer is on the recovery partition but it will download the image from Apple's servers once you've entered your Apple Id. Christopher Hallsworth Student at the