mongo Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 So I'm giving my old Pro to my girlfriend, because I just don't use it much (and so I can get a swanky new Air when I decide I 'need' to do more mobile computing). We are, in turn, going to wipe her MacBook with Leopard on it, and give it to her mother. I know how to wipe the Leopard computer, but the Lion is a little tricky since it has no install disc... Anyone know how to do it? I've googled some stuff, but it's either been about wiping pre-Lion computers, or told you that you can't (because the Lion is apparently non-transferable, they tell you to wipe it back to Leopard). Since it's staying in the family I don't see an EULA problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|Elflocko| Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 Why don't you just create a new admin account, delete your old account, and create a new non-admin account? Not like she doesn't already know where you stash your porn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted June 28, 2012 Report Share Posted June 28, 2012 there are pretty basic easy instructions on making your own lion install disc, i have done it, basically download lion from the app store again, go to that file, hit "view pack contents" and copy them to a disc image... boom. good to go... you could also install how old is the macbook? i had my boss bring in a black macbook intel processor and it wouldnt install lion, so i had to get snow leopard onto it. and lastly, you could install snow leopard (not hard to find it you done have a disc) and then log into your app store account on that computer, and download lion and install i have done both with success... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongo Posted July 3, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2012 In the end, I held down option on restart. Lion had created a recovery partition. I used disk utilities in that partition to wipe the main partition, then told it to reinstall Lion. Worked like a charm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-GoBengals- Posted July 4, 2012 Report Share Posted July 4, 2012 niiice lion is cool, that magical partition is sweet if you wipe it and connect to the internet and it will download lion on its own over that internet connection.. BRILLIANT! *throws away disc drive* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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