How to Reformat your Mac without a Recovery Disk!

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There are a ton of reasons why you may need to reformat your Mac - it's slowing down, too many un-needed files to delete manually, major technical issues or maybe you're just selling it on for an upgrade and need to remove everything. In today's video, we're showing you how to completely reformat your Mac back to factory settings without the need for a recovery disk or drive. Check out the video above to see how! Subscribe to Cult of Mac TV on YouTube to catch all our latest videos.

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  1. its showing' This items is temporarily unavailable' when will be availble? its been two months!!!
  2. once i get to the reinstallation and connect to wifi i put in my apple id and password and it says: "this item is temporarily unavailable try again later". what should i do?
  3. Nothing happens when I press command and R I've tried over and over again
  4. it'll say that it cant use that disk
  5. Won't work
  6. I wish I'd seen this before trying to do this manually - nice job!
  7. When i get to the menu where you download the new software it says it has to be verified by apple. How do i fix this?
  8. Thank you very much
  9. it doesn't work for me
  10. Please i have an issue where i wipe my imac harddrive with the recovery
    partition, i have tried the internet installation, i keep on having
    error due to fluctuation of internet connectivity. Is their any valid
    offline way of recovery my imac because i have also tried several osx
    but no positive result...is imac late 2012.
  11. Nothing happens when I press command and R
  12. PLZ help after the hour my mac went to 718178171818 hours D:
  13. Do you need an Apple account for this to work?
  14. Can I do this over wifi connection
  15. the applenstore recovery purchase failed is coming while reinstalling
  16. does not show "built in sound" in sound preference settings and no output sound from speaker and headphone jack.but it still working on Bluetooth headphone. so what can I do?
  17. mine keyboard wound't connect...
  18. My proxy sever doesnt work HELP
  19. When I go into disk utility I don't have Macintosh HD any help please thanks
  20. Excellent loved your video helped me a lot mate likes and subbed 👌🏼