Reinstalling osx to make it like when first purchased.

[Heller]

i have all the cds, is there a way like in windows you set the bios to boot from cd, cause when my macs on i tried installing a fresh copy and it never asks me to delete my current partition and it takes about 45mins to completely do nothing??? when i go along with it it?


any ideas guys?

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Can't you go to custom and then delete the partition like windows?

 

[Heller]

just did the whole hold c method it worked but not really im still at the same mac that it was before i did the cd, looks like it didn't erase the hdd ... any ideas? its still has all my musiic on it and it never was restored.!
wtf i never had these problems with windows.

 

[MustISO]

See if this works for you:
http://www.wikihow.com/Reinstall-Mac-OS-X

 

[PCTC2]

The guide MustISO linked is only good for 10.5 and earlier.

For 10.6 (10.7 is via the recovery partition), by default, normal installations in 10.6 will only do Archive and Install, preserving all of your current data. You need to manually remove your old installation.

When you get to the installation, before you start selecting a drive, look at the menu bar. It should say "Utilities" on it. In utilities, there's Disk Utility. Open Disk Utility, select the drive, and in the main part of the window, it should say "Erase" in a tab. Select it, and you can erase. The options available are zero-passes (1-10 I think), and what FS the newly formatted partition will be.

Please note this WILL ERASE ALL OF YOUR DATA so back up accordingly.

Then, quit Disk Utility and continue your installation as you have, and it will be 100% fresh.

 

[Patranus]

All you have to do is boot off the CD and go to the Utility menu, select Disk Utility, and format the drive.

Don't bother with deleting the partitions, ect. Just format the entire drive in Disk Utility after booting form the CD.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

I have a rather odd situation. I lost my OSX 10.6 install CD and want to reformat with OSX 10.7, which is only available as download. Is there any way to do this without having to have the original install disk?

 

[alfa147x]

I have a rather odd situation. I lost my OSX 10.6 install CD and want to reformat with OSX 10.7, which is only available as download. Is there any way to do this without having to have the original install disk?

Can you download 10.7? If so use this:
http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/

 

[Heller]

edit wrong thread/

 

[alfa147x]

What?