How to reformat your Mac without a recovery drive or disk

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There are tons of reasons why you might need to reformat your Mac: It’s slowing down, filling up with too many unneeded files to delete manually or suffering from major technical issues that can’t be fixed otherwise.

Or maybe you’re just selling it as you move on to a better, faster Mac and need to remove everything.

In today’s video, we show you how to completely reformat your Mac and set it back to factory settings, all without the need for a recovery disk or drive. Check out the video above to see how!

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