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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Clearing Macbook HDD for resale?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1024308"><p>You should pop it back in the MacBook, boot from your bootable backup or system restore DVDs, and use Disk Utility to completely zero out (under "security options") the drive and bring it back to one partition.</p><p></p><p>Format it as FAT32. This way it is readable "out of the box" by both Mac and PC potential buyers.</p><p></p><p>DO NOT put any software on it. Not OS X, not XP, nothing. Leave it blank.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1024308"] You should pop it back in the MacBook, boot from your bootable backup or system restore DVDs, and use Disk Utility to completely zero out (under "security options") the drive and bring it back to one partition. Format it as FAT32. This way it is readable "out of the box" by both Mac and PC potential buyers. DO NOT put any software on it. Not OS X, not XP, nothing. Leave it blank. [/QUOTE]
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