Patrick has the Yosemite installer, but if you need an older installer, you can launch App Store on a Mac and then use the Purchased tab to scroll down and find older releases—they don't show up. If your Mac has the Apple T2 Security Chip and you never installed a macOS update, you will receive the latest macOS that was installed on your Mac. On an Intel-based Mac that previously used macOS Sierra 10.12.4 or later, you can use Shift-Option-Command-R at startup to install the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still. Continue holding the keys until your Mac finishes starting up. Your Mac may reboot itself during this process. Once you arrive at the user selection screen, you can release the keys and sign into your MacBook Pro like you usually do. You may need to reset some of your preferences (e.g., preferred audio output) after resetting the NVRAM.
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There are numerous reasons for users to want to reset their MacBook Pros to their factory settings. It might be because you are experiencing major problems with its performance, virus attacks, and system errors. You can also perform this process when you need to flush out data from your machine if you need to sell it off or give it to someone else.
Part 1: How to Restore MacBook Pro
Reset MacBook Pro to square one by following these procedures:
- Before you restore MacBook Pro to its factory settings, make sure you have your files backed up in a different location. This is because once you initiate the procedure, you will be wiping out all available data stored on your MacBook Pro locally. One of the ways to do so is by utilizing the Time Machine feature provided by Apple. Take your time with this so that you can be sure that you can still access important data.
- Once your data is backed up, connect your machine to the power adapter and restart it. Hold down the 'Command' and 'R' buttons simultaneously to start the restoration process until you see the Apple logo on the screen. Release the buttons immediately.
- The 'OS X Utilities' window will appear and click 'Disk Utility'.
- Open the 'Erase' tab and select your MacBook's primary drive to reset MacBook Pro.
- Select 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)' from the 'Format' drop-down menu.
- Click the 'Erase' button.
- Once the erasing action is complete, close the 'Disk Utility' window.
- To complete the restoration process, connect your computer to the Internet. Establish a WiFi connection with a secure network.
- From the 'OS X Utilities' menu, look for either 'Internet Recovery', 'OS X Recovery' or 'Reinstall OS X'. Follow the wizard and complete the installation of the operating system. Restart your MacBook once the installation is complete.
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Part 2: How to Restore Data from Macbook Pro
The quickest and easiest way to make sure data on your MacBook Pro is not entirely lost is by the built-in Time Machine feature on your machine. However, this method may not be 100% effective and you may need the assistance of a third-party data recovery tool to restore data from MacBook Pro.
Recoverit for Macis a great option to aid you in the restoration of data into a MacBook Pro that has been restored to its factory settings. You may also find this software useful when precious data is lost due to a corrupted hard drive, virus attacks, system errors, formatting, etc.
We have outlined the steps needed to restore data from MacBook Pro using Recoverit for Mac - just remember to install the software in a partition that is different from the one where the data was lost:
- Select a drive
To recover deleted or lost data on Mac, you can choose the partition that has been restored to factory settings. Then click on 'Start' to have a scan on it.
- Scan the partition
Recoverit will start scanning the selected Mac partition, thorough and quick. It will only read your data to perform the recovery process.
- Recover lost files
A list of files will be built up. Highlight the file name to preview its content, select the wanted files, and click 'Recover' to get them back.
As we have outlined above, resetting MacBook Pro to factory settings should not intimidate you from not doing it yourself. You do not need to worry about losing your data because it is really easy torestore MacBook Pro- as easy as 1, 2, 3. Good luck with your efforts!
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