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Protect Yourself from Someone Trying to Hack into Your MacĬreate a Bootable Install USB Drive of Mac OS X 10.11 El CapitanĬreate a Bootable Install DVD or USB Drive of OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion In my case, I even have programs I want to keep so I don't have to re-download them after the process is over.ĭual Boot Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan & 10.10 YosemiteĬreate a Bootable Install USB Drive of Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericksĭual Boot Mac OS X Mavericks 10.9 & Yosemite 10.10 Okay, so you may have a lot of files that you want to get rid of, but you definitely have some files you want to keep. Best of all, this will work with Lion, Mountain Lion, Mavericks, Yosemite, and El Capitan. With just a few clicks of some buttons and your Mac is gonna be running like it did the day you got it. Thankfully, the geniuses over at Apple have made the process easy for us-no need for a disc no need for a drive-all you need is a decent internet connection. Often, the best option to fix these problems would be to reformat your computer and reinstall your OS, but since most of us don't plan on ever taking this drastic measure, we don't obtain a recovery disc or thumb drive. In other cases, your Mac can be experiencing some major malfunctions: constant crashing, locked controls, slow boot times, missing files, etc. At one point, I realized that there were plenty of files on my Mac that I didn't need any more, but too many to delete individually. Way too complicated but everything else on a mac is way better than windows.As I've said before, slowing down is not an option for me. I have been a mac user for 2 years now and swear by them but this is probably one of the dumbest things I have seen yet. This is the first convoluted thing on mac that I have come across as compared to windows. I too, got the "couldn't unmount disk" message so I went to the drive on the left, right clicked and clicked "unmount disk" then went ahead and erased it. I went to utilities like the previous posters said and simply clicked "erase." No need to partition, don't understand why you would need to do all of that to do a simple format. On a PC, you simply right click and select "format." The reason I wanted to do this on the mac is because I have an 8gb usb flash drive that for some strange reason, when I deleted all the files it still showed only 1.5 gb available making it impossible to put any more than 1.5 gigs of new data on it.
Steps 4-6 are optional but should be used on a drive that has never been formatted before, if the format type is not Mac OS Extended, if the partition scheme has been changed, or if a different operating system (not OS X) has been installed on the drive. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.Ħ.
Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.ĥ. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.Ĥ. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.ģ. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.Ģ.