How to Reset the MacBook Pro with Factory Settings

There are times when you decide to sell your MacBook Pro to someone else. Wiping your MacBook pro hard drive and returning the system using factory settings gives you a complete new start.

• How to reset the MacBook Pro to the original factory settings

• Clone your Mac hard drive and securely wipe the original HD

• Remove all of your personal data and set up a fresh installation

The above-mentioned questions are the ones which every user ask prior to selling his/her MacBook Pro. It is always beneficial to sell a Mac machine with personal data removed. Also, a cleaning out MacBook Pro looks healthier for the buyers. Below I have mentioned all the steps to reset your MacBook Hard drive:-

Note: - Before doing any of the steps, make sure your system is connected to the Internet, so that you can easily download the latest Mac OS X.

Step 1: Clone Your MacBook HD

When you reset your MacBook Pro to the factory settings, all data gets erased automatically. So, you should transfer the data to a new and reliable hard drive in order to use it for future. The best way to do this automatically is by the help of cloning software such as Stellar Drive Clone. This tool clones both Macintosh HD and Boot Camp partition to another drive. However, the windows partition will be cloned as EXFAT.

Step 2: Deauthorizing iTunes

You should also de-authorize your MacBook Pro from iTunes. To do this, open iTunes and click Store > Deauthorize.

Step 3: Turn off FileVault

FileVault encrypts the files from your HD and it is always better to turn it off before going further. To do this, open the System Preferences and click on the Security & Privacy and FileVault. Check and see whether the FileVault is already Turn off or not. If not, then click on the padlock icon situated in the bottom left. Now, enter our password and click on the Unlock. This way, you can easily turn off your FileVault.

Step 4: Disable iCloud

To disable the iCloud, open System preferences and thereafter click on the iCloud and sign out. To remove all your personal data, click on Delete from Mac.

Step 5: Restart MacBook in Safe Mode

Before performing the step 5, make sure you are connected to the Internet. This is because; you need an internet connection to install Mac OS X. Now, restart your Mac by clicking on the Apple>Restart and hold down the Command and R keys.

Step 6: Select reinstall Mac OS X

Now, click on the reinstall Mac OS X button and continue. This will automatically download and install a black copy of latest Mac OS X on your MacBook Pro.

Stellar Speedup Mac 3.0.0.5 Detailed Review

Reviewing free version of Stellar Speedup Mac utility for slow & sluggish Macs. In this review, I will cover up the detailed insights of this software and its available functionalities to clean up your Mac hard drive.

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1. Rocket Screen:

Earlier versions of Stellar Speedup Mac used to have 3 buttons namely - Speedup Mac, Clean up Mac and Uninstaller. Speed up Mac Version 3.0 has one single button having Rocket mounted on it that indicates to speed up slow Macs.

Little but helpful documentation is given on this screen so that user can get an exact idea of the purpose of this tool. Click on the Rocket button once through with the welcome window.

     2. Speedup Mac software Menu: 

On the second window user needs to choose an action. The action includes either of the following:

• Refresh Drive (helpful when an external media is connected)
• Login Item (Add/Removes apps from Login-Item tray)

• Uninstaller (Removes apps & other installed items from Mac)

     3. Select a Drive for cleaning:

No hard work is required here since your Macintosh HDD (startup drive) is selected by default under Recommended Scan option. All other mounted volumes are blurred and you can't select them for cleaning under Recommended Scan.

• To switch from Startup drive to any other Partition, simply make the bullet selection on Custom Scan that is just below Recommended Scan. This will enable all non- startup partitions and ready for cleaning. Though you will be able to select a single partition at a time.

4. Scan launches on Select hard drive:

Stellar Speedup Mac software launches an intensive scan to pull out junk files from every corner of the selected hard disk drives. Stellar Speedup Mac considers below files as junks:

• Caches & Log files
• System Junks, Trashes & Leftovers
• Extensions
• Universal Binaries
• Language & Duplicate Files
• Large Files

The Speedup Mac tool can take few minutes to scan your few hundreds gigabyte of the hard disk drive depending upon the presence of junk files. More number of junks or the large drive size will take scan time accordingly.

     5. Preview & Removal of Junk Files:

When scanning completes, the software lists summary of its scan in form of junks it can remove in free & registered versions. It will also let you know what kind of junks could be removed in free & paid versions.

Free vs Paid Junk Removal

Click Show Results to preview all the files that Speedup Mac software considered as junks. Preview helps user to give a human touch to this automated cleaning since few files are useful still listed under junk. So, carefully preview all the files before a free Mac drive cleanup.

Upon clicking on the third button in the above screenshot that says “Free 11.05 GB Space Now”, it will give you below pop-up. If you need to clean more junk files from Mac OS X then you can register the software through buy now page.

    6. Free clean up Mac

By clicking on the second button, which says “Free 5.32 GB Space”, user is entitled for free cleaning up of its Mac.

Result: Speedup Mac software just cleaning 5GB of junk files from Mac OS X startup drive.