#FACTORY RESET MACBOOK PRO 2018 MAC OS X#
#FACTORY RESET MACBOOK PRO 2018 MAC OS#
#FACTORY RESET MACBOOK PRO 2018 UPDATE#
#FACTORY RESET MACBOOK PRO 2018 UPGRADE#

#FACTORY RESET MACBOOK PRO 2018 UPDATE#

Once youвЂ™re logged in, you should be free to update and after some more loading screens, you will have an fully up-to-date MacBook. Since you will be creating this account purely for the sake of updating the MacBook, I wouldnвЂ™t recommend using your primary email or adding any form of payment to the account. If you were unable to login, there is a work around вЂ“ that is to say, OS X Mavericks will let you make a new Apple ID, which luckily are free.

#FACTORY RESET MACBOOK PRO 2018 UPGRADE#

The reason why we need to App Store is because it is required to upgrade to High Sierra/the present version of OS X. Out of my own experience, OS X Mavericks will not allow you to login to the app store if you have two step verification вЂ“ but I would recommend trying, your luck could be better than mine.

#FACTORY RESET MACBOOK PRO 2018 MAC OS#

If you have two step verification enabled, you may have issues updating the the latest Mac OS version. To fix that, all you have to do is to erase the drive again with the disk utility mention earlier вЂ“ the one catch is that you can only get back to the recovery tools if you restart the computer and start internet recovery again, which as you may have noticed, is a slow process.Дepending on the age of your Macbook, there is a solid chance that you will end up with an old version of Mac OS. If you hadnвЂ™t erased the drive again, there is a good chance no drive will appear in the drive selection. If you properly erased the hard drive a few moments before, you will be able to select the hard drive and continue on. After clicking through for a bit, you will see a page asking you to select a drive.

#FACTORY RESET MACBOOK PRO 2018 MAC OS X#

Unless you created a вЂњtime machineвЂќ backup, youвЂ™ll want to pick the reinstall Mac OS X option. Now go back into the main repair menu by closing the disk utility. First thing you need to do is to select disk utility, select your MacbookвЂ™s hard drive and hit erase вЂ“ this may seem redundant but IвЂ™ll explain in a moment. Eventually you will see the MacbookвЂ™s recovery tools.

Now that the wifi is connected, you need to wait. If you had been able to connect without the boot menu, you should be already be in internet recovery and do not need to press anything. Once youвЂ™re connected, you want to hit вЂњcmd + RвЂќ from that boot screen. Unfortunately if youвЂ™re at UMass, eduroam (or UMASS) wonвЂ™t work, however you can easily connect to any typical home Wi-Fi or a mobile hotspot (although you should make sure you have unlimited data first). Eventually you will see a screen where you can pick a Wi-Fi network. To get there, power the computer on, hit the power button and very soon after, hold the option key. Luckily there is another way to connect, via appleвЂ™s boot menu. If instead your MacBook lets you select a Wi-Fi network during this process, youвЂ™re in the clear and can skip the next paragraph. This tends to be because the Mac assumes it is already connected to Wi-Fi (when its not) and gives an error after it fails to connect to apple servers. There is a bit of a catch: if you do this straight away, there is a good chance that the Mac will get stuck here and throw up an error вЂ“ error -3001F in my personal experience. The way forward is to use the built-in вЂњinternet recoveryвЂќ which, on startup, can be triggered via pressing вЂњcmd + RвЂќ. It may seem like you just bricked your MacBook, but luckily there is a remedy. If youвЂ™re anything like me, you will (or already have) accidentally wiped your MacbookвЂ™s ssd.

Factory reset macbook pro 2018