clearing a mac

[LUDELVR]

Hey lads (and ladies),

anyone know how to clear a mac book of all its files and basically restoring to new condition with the factory settings...and getting rid of all the files that were previously on it?

Cheers.

[badatusrnames]

Reinstall OS X...?

I've done that to mine before...

[pyroza]

I would assume that the OSX disc has an option to reformat and reinstall

[blinkme_210]

Pop in the restore DVD and away you go.

[LUDELVR]

Well, sounds all good and well, but this is a company laptop and would like to save all the stuff I have on there and clear the memory as best I can...for no particular reason of course!

[ZorroAMG]

I did this before when I upgraded my hard drive in my MBP. Create a .dmg (disk image) of your hard drive on an external, then reboot using the restore DVD