How to reset the initial password of a Mac

The Mac is Apple’s personal computer, it’s of the finest quality and has more advanced features like the best graphics resolution of its screens, compared to the classic computer, of course its costs are much higher.

Once you’ve purchased and made the entire procedure to configure it best to your needs, you may have to reset your Mac’s initial password because you’ve forgotten it. Through the following guide, we will explain in a very basic way what the procedure is to do this.

Requirement : The installation dvd.

  • As a first step towards resetting your password, you must have the operating system dvd you are using; Whether it’s original or something else (just enough to save the same operating system). Once you have made sure that you insert the dvd into your drive and then reboot your computer, you will have to press the ” C ” key while you restart, so restarting the mac will start from the DVD.
  • Once you’ve got to reboot your Mac through DVD support, we’ll have to select your preferred language, and obviously choose the English, clicking on ” Continue ” will give you a few minutes to load the interface. Immediately you will be on the bar at the top precisely on ” Utility “, you will need to click on ” password recovery ” in case we have version 10.6 or in version 10.5 or 10.4 we will have to click on ” set password “.
  • Do all of the steps above, you will be asked to select the volume of our Mac installation to perform the password recovery, which is usually ” Macintosh hd “, the next action to be taken is to decide the type of Account, I highly recommend choosing ” System Administrator “. The final step will be just to set a new password and finally close the window you were working on and exit the installer (Mac OS X installer > exit the program).
  • That’s what it will do, it will simply restart your Mac computer with the new password you’ve changed. The simplicity of explanation in the guide here just finished will allow readers to accomplish this task only apparently complex in a simple and elementary way. Just simply run the letter above and all will be a joke.

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