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Best method to Purge older iMac before donating it?
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<blockquote data-quote="drgrafix" data-source="post: 1945844" data-attributes="member: 38559"><p>Jake... I just spent about 90 minutes with a apple tech and he tried everything but we could not get past that error screen. He said I have two options, first is to bring the iMac to an Apple store and they can install a clean OS X operating system. He said the other option is to try to find a older Mac or MacBook that was running El Capitan 10.11 and make a bootable USB. He did not know if the Apple Store would charge to do the install, but he did say it would only take a very short period of time. I guess they have either bootable USBs or CDs with various OS X versions. Apparently it must be El Capitan and there are no substitutions. </p><p></p><p>I started doing a search online and it seems a lot of the files are sketchy and I don't know which are safe. Can you or anyone else point me to a link where a safe, bootable USB file can be found? TIA-Mike</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="drgrafix, post: 1945844, member: 38559"] Jake... I just spent about 90 minutes with a apple tech and he tried everything but we could not get past that error screen. He said I have two options, first is to bring the iMac to an Apple store and they can install a clean OS X operating system. He said the other option is to try to find a older Mac or MacBook that was running El Capitan 10.11 and make a bootable USB. He did not know if the Apple Store would charge to do the install, but he did say it would only take a very short period of time. I guess they have either bootable USBs or CDs with various OS X versions. Apparently it must be El Capitan and there are no substitutions. I started doing a search online and it seems a lot of the files are sketchy and I don't know which are safe. Can you or anyone else point me to a link where a safe, bootable USB file can be found? TIA-Mike [/QUOTE]
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