How to completely wipe CR-48 to factory reset?

[Haloman800]

Edit: I'm sorry, I didn't know. I won't sell it.

I'd still like to know if it's possible to wipe it, though, is it? I was going to sell it to my cousin, but as I see now it's illegal, but it's not if you're giving it away, I might do that.

[CBowley603]

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[woodyman]

Edit: I'm sorry, I didn't know. I won't sell it.

I'd still like to know if it's possible to wipe it, though, is it? I was going to sell it to my cousin, but as I see now it's illegal, but it's not if you're giving it away, I might do that.

If you want to wipe do the following:

-Remove the battery
-Flip the Dev switch
-Power on
-When you see the sad face hit "ctrl" and "D"
-Let the wipe process finish
-When you get to the set up screen power down
-Flip the switch back to regular and power on again
-It will wipe the drive and go back through set up again
-Done and wiped clean!

[CBowley603]

"Transfer" doesn't mean "sell". Giving it away is also a "transfer". You could let him borrow it. I didn't mean to sound like mean or anything. I am just saying that transferring something you were lucky enough to get the chance to participate in against the TOS is something that is greatly frowned-upon in this community (not just in these forums) and most people here wouldn't help you for that reason. Woodyman is a softy though

[woodyman]

"Transfer" doesn't mean "sell". Giving it away is also a "transfer". You could let him borrow it. I didn't mean to sound like mean or anything. I am just saying that transferring something you were lucky enough to get the chance to participate in against the TOS is something that is greatly frowned-upon in this community (not just in these forums) and most people here wouldn't help you for that reason. Woodyman is a softy though

LOL,

[Phi11ips]

My experience with Chrome OS was through a beta tester who let me borrow his Cr-48 for a long weekend as he was super-busy and hadn't had a chance to get to setting it up himself. He hadn't even finished unboxing it yet.

Letting me borrow it wasn't "wrong" in my opinion (I'm not a lawyer but reading the TOS doesn't seem that anything was violated) as it was only lent to me short-term and was just sitting there doing nothing. I'm sure Google got some good data out of the 30-35 hours of time I had used it over that weekend (I can easily spend 12-14 hours a day online if I let myself and the Cr-48 was so fun I spent much of the weekend playing with it and giving it a chance to impress me -which it certainly did).

I hit the reset issue when I went to give it back. I couldn't figure out how to wipe my logon just by noodling around on the interface. I finally found a Youtube video that walked me through the procedure so I could give it back to my friend the way I found it. It was very helpful and concise. Let's see if I can embed it here for anyone else who might find it helpful if they wanted to wipe the machine.



One thing to note: Reseting with this method does NOT set the entire machine back exactly to how it was from the factory but just erases the "stateless partition" which I think just means resetting the user login data and any personal stuff that has been stored on the machine. Any updates that have been automatically downloaded and installed do not get rolled-back. I confirmed this by doing the reset a couple of times just for giggles -it's not hard or time-consuming. The very first time I started the Cr-48 there was a pretty sizable update that processed right after logging in and getting online. After resetting and starting over there was no need for the update and it jumped directly into the boot-up after signing in and was ready to go. Rolling back the OS probably requires some USB recovery key and even so it would automatically want to update again anyhow unless there was some way to hold it back.

[silastic armorfiend]

Thank you, woodyman. Just wiped BOTH of my eBay-bought Cr-48s!!!

[Lala55]

Google’s Cr-48 Chromebook was distributed to beta testers in February 2011 and was public’s the first glimpse at a netbook running the Chrome OS. Since its release, the Cr-48 has undergone a number of updates, and on occasion, the software changes create a problem that can be hard to fix with the limited number of resources available for Chrome OS issues. Not to worry, follow these steps to reset your Cr-48 to its default factory settings and you’ll be back in no time.

Note: Friendly reminder that selling your Cr-48 is against the TOS — don’t be that guy!




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