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Backup up an old iMac

Pixel Eater · 2018-06-13 19:28:23

I'm selling my I am selling my iMac and was going to reboot the whole system for the new owner. It's an iMac, 3.06MHz, appox. 7 years old. I think you start it up as normal while pressing command + R then erase the HD. Is this correct? The thing is I'd then need to reinstall the OS but I actually don't have the backup…

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13-06-2018 8:28pm

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Pixel Eater

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I'm selling my I am selling my iMac and was going to reboot the whole system for the new owner. It's an iMac, 3.06MHz, appox. 7 years old. I think you start it up as normal while pressing command + R then erase the HD. Is this correct?

The thing is I'd then need to reinstall the OS but I actually don't have the backup discs. Do I actually need them or can it just be downloaded from the internet? Don't want to do it them discover I can't reload it.

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