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Bought a gorgeous second hand MacBook Pro 2012 - Advice on setup please
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1542746" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Based on what you're saying above, you're way ahead of the average 1st timer and should be ok getting it done.</p><p></p><p>If the machine is running 10.8 currently:</p><p></p><p>Yes, I would reboot to the Recovery partition. When you get there, I would head into Disk Utility first and repartition the drive. </p><p>Select the top level of the drive - go to the Partition tab - select "1 Partition" from the drop down - you can leave everything else as default (or give your drive a personal name if you want).</p><p></p><p>Once partitioned, you can quit Disk Utility, you'll be good to go for a clean install of the OS.</p><p></p><p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>If the machine is running 10.7, you could still do the above, or:</p><p></p><p>Log in to the App Store with "your" Apple ID, purchase and download Mountain Lion.</p><p></p><p>Don't install yet - you're going to need to create a boot disk of the installer.</p><p>For that, you need a 8 GB minimum size flash drive and grab <a href="http://liondiskmaker.com" target="_blank">LionDiskmaker</a> (easy way to create tthe bootable disk).</p><p></p><p>Once you have the boot disk, reboot the machine while holding the 'option' key, select the boot disk and then the same process as above to partition and install.</p><p></p><p>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>edit to add:</p><p>If in the App Store and it has some other ID - click Store on the menu bar and then Log out.</p><p>You can then either log in with your ID or it has the option to create one there also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1542746, member: 24160"] Based on what you're saying above, you're way ahead of the average 1st timer and should be ok getting it done. If the machine is running 10.8 currently: Yes, I would reboot to the Recovery partition. When you get there, I would head into Disk Utility first and repartition the drive. Select the top level of the drive - go to the Partition tab - select "1 Partition" from the drop down - you can leave everything else as default (or give your drive a personal name if you want). Once partitioned, you can quit Disk Utility, you'll be good to go for a clean install of the OS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If the machine is running 10.7, you could still do the above, or: Log in to the App Store with "your" Apple ID, purchase and download Mountain Lion. Don't install yet - you're going to need to create a boot disk of the installer. For that, you need a 8 GB minimum size flash drive and grab [URL="http://liondiskmaker.com"]LionDiskmaker[/URL] (easy way to create tthe bootable disk). Once you have the boot disk, reboot the machine while holding the 'option' key, select the boot disk and then the same process as above to partition and install. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- edit to add: If in the App Store and it has some other ID - click Store on the menu bar and then Log out. You can then either log in with your ID or it has the option to create one there also. [/QUOTE]
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