+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted April 7, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted April 7, 2015 Hi, I am selling my Late 2013 iMac 27 Inch. It came with Mavericks and I am wondering if I use the Disc Utility to wipe it, will it stay on Yosemite now, or go back to Mavericks? I have never actually reset a Mac computer before, only windows/linux etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikh Posted April 7, 2015 Share Posted April 7, 2015 If you Hold CMD + R when you boot up your computer, you will enter recovery and you can wipe the drive via Disk Utility and then install OS X. It will automatically install the last version of OS X that was on their. So If you upgraded to yosemite, it will install yosemite. If you want to install Mavericks, you can install via Internet Recovery and that will load what originally came with your machine. DO NOT boot up into recovery and click "Install OS X". It will just "refresh" your files like windows 8 does. So you want to wipe the drive first, then quit disk utility and the installer window will pop up and then you want to Install OS X. You will have a new OS in 15-20 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+longgonebn Subscriber² Posted April 7, 2015 Author Subscriber² Share Posted April 7, 2015 Hi, Thank you, the detail on which it would install was all I needed Good to know the steps though, I figured it was a wipe, then install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikh Posted April 12, 2015 Share Posted April 12, 2015 Hi, Thank you, the detail on which it would install was all I needed Good to know the steps though, I figured it was a wipe, then install No problem. I added the steps because the recovery process has changed from older OS's and some people make the mistake of treating it like an old OS. I do the same sometimes. Glad I could help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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