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Da-6iene8 Author

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erase and restore hard drive

when running the disk utility to erase hard drive, may I assume that all personal data is gone and only the OS remains to use for restore from backup?

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Nov 16, 2021 6:29 AM

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leroydouglas

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Posted on Nov 16, 2021 6:34 AM

Da-6iene8 wrote:

when running the disk utility to erase hard drive, may I assume that all personal data is gone and only the OS remains to use for restore from backup?

"...while maintaining the operating system currently installed."

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ref: Erase all content and settings on Mac - Apple Support

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