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Dear reader,
I am trying to prepare an older MBP for sale, which is currently running OS X 10.8.4.
To wipe the drive I created a separate recovery disk on a USB using the image available at support.apple.com/kb/DL1433.
When I use the recovery USB at the boot screen on my older MBP the status cog spins a while and then a symbol - a circle with a line through it - shows and nothing else happens. I know that the problem is not the USB as I have used others and have run repair and verification operations through Disk Utility.
Booting off the recovery partition native to the hard drive did not work as it was unable to gain access to the rest of the drive in order to perform the wipe - I presume this needs to happen off a USB so I am keen to find a solution to this problem.
Have any helpful thoughts?
With thanks in advance!
I am trying to prepare an older MBP for sale, which is currently running OS X 10.8.4.
To wipe the drive I created a separate recovery disk on a USB using the image available at support.apple.com/kb/DL1433.
When I use the recovery USB at the boot screen on my older MBP the status cog spins a while and then a symbol - a circle with a line through it - shows and nothing else happens. I know that the problem is not the USB as I have used others and have run repair and verification operations through Disk Utility.
Booting off the recovery partition native to the hard drive did not work as it was unable to gain access to the rest of the drive in order to perform the wipe - I presume this needs to happen off a USB so I am keen to find a solution to this problem.
Have any helpful thoughts?
With thanks in advance!