{"id":1421,"date":"2025-10-26T01:46:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2025-10-26T01:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T01:46:36","slug":"wiping-and-reloading-intel-macs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/?p=1421","title":{"rendered":"Wiping and Reloading Intel Macs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wiping and Reloading Old Intel Macs<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Restart PC, and hold CMD + R to enter Recovery Mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Enter Disk Utility &gt; Select Primary Drive Partition &gt; Erase &gt; Rename, select macOS Extended, Journaled &gt; Erase<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exit Disk Utility<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Select \u201cReinstall macOS ____\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If not given the option to reinstall most up to date macOS or says \u201cCannot contact servers\u201d, restart PC and let it enter Internet Recovery to reinstall OS X<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>6)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Once OS X is installed, you need to get the base OS installers from here and create bootable media to add the installer to the Applications folder and update from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>7)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For finding the installers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/102662\">https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/102662<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Directions to create bootable media with the installer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/101578\">https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/101578<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiping and Reloading Old Intel Macs 1)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Restart PC, and hold CMD + R to enter Recovery Mode. 2)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Enter Disk Utility &gt; Select Primary Drive Partition &gt; Erase &gt; Rename, select macOS Extended, Journaled &gt; Erase 3)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exit Disk Utility 4)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Select \u201cReinstall macOS ____\u201d 5)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If not given the option to reinstall most up to date macOS or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-knowledge-base-articles","category-mac-stuff","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultrexstaff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}