![]() ![]() Here is an Apple article on what you should do to prepare a Mac for sale or disposal: It should also be possible to boot into Internet Recovery Mode using Command + Option + R, but Apple's information on this is a bit confusing for an older system only running macOS 10.10 and many people have posted issues when using local recovery mode to perform a clean install like this. Using the bootable macOS USB installer is best since you will be erasing the drive and will want to reinstall macOS for the new owner in order to show the laptop is functional. I then recommend creating a bootable macOS 10.11 El Capitan USB installer using these instructions (read them carefully as there are multiple steps to extract the installer to the Applications folder): ![]() The encryption process can take a day or more depending on the health of the drive. Since you have a hard drive I recommend enabling Filevault and let the Filevault encryption process complete. It appears you have just a single hard drive installed in your Mac.
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