Doing a Clean Install of Mountain Lion?

Would this be the best program to use to put ML on a USB stick so that I can do a clean install?

Download Lion DiskMaker for Mac - Make a bootable DVD or USB key for Mac OS X 10.7 or 10.8. MacUpdate.com

Also, should an older 8GB stick that I bought for a PC, and have some things on it from my PC, work with my Mac, or, do I have to format it for the Mac? It is an 8GB Patriot Xporter stick.

That USB stick will work, but you have to reformat it to make it bootable

Thanks....Can you direct me to some instructions how to reformat it on my Mac so that it is wiped clean and reformatted? I can Google it, however you may know the best instructions to use.

I did figure out how to make the stick bootable. Still want to make sure that the program in the link above is the best program to use to put ML on the stick to do the clean install. Thanks.

This is what I shall be busing poker maniac:-

How To Burn Mountain Lion To A DVD Or USB Flash Drive | Lifehacker Australia

Your link seems to be to software for the job.

Yes, it is software to do it. It would be easier for me to do it with the software, so I was curious if anyone has used Lion DiskMaker before, and how it went.

Never used any software when making Bootable Thumb Drives.
I have just done it the way it shows you to in the link Harry supplied. That gets it on the thumb drive, and makes it bootable. Don't need any 3rd party App to do that. Disk Utility is all But thats just me

I just saw that the link supplied above by Harry says that the easy option is to use Lion DiskMaker. Thanks to both of you.

pokermaniac said:

I just saw that the link supplied above by Harry says that the easy option is to use Lion DiskMaker. Thanks to both of you.

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There you go. I didn't read the article as i have always gone the show packages route. If there is something that makes it easier by all means use it.

I have one more question. I have 2 iMacs. If I pay the $19.99 to the App Store on one of them, when I make the bootable ML stick, can I use the same stick to install ML on the other iMac also?

Yes you should be right to go. Make a backup first however.

Thanks.

pokermaniac said:

Yes, it is software to do it. It would be easier for me to do it with the software, so I was curious if anyone has used Lion DiskMaker before, and how it went.

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I used it today, it went fine.

I have not done the install from the USB thumb drive yet, so I can't confirm Lion DiskMaker made it bootable but the web site seems to indicate it will be.

I already have several upgrades on my mid-2007 iMac and I installed ML on it yesterday. It seems to run fine so far but I was thinking of doing a clean install to clear out the cruft.

I haven't come to a final decision on THAT yet ....

Thanks for the info.

I'm going to wait until 10.8.1 comes out, and then use Lion DiskMaker and install ML on my Macs.

I first have to make sure that Vox (Music Player) is compatible with ML, and will play FLAC files.

I saw that it is compatible at roaringapps, however the Vox Forum seems to indicate some are having problems.

Since I want to wait to do a clean install of 10.8.1 when it comes out, does anyone know if Lion DiskMaker will have the same functionality for 10.8.1 as it does for 10.8? Or, do I have to put 10.8 on a memory stick for Lion DiskMaker to work? Thanks.

Edit: I figured it out. Solved.

Your problem will be you will need ML OS X.8 installed to be able to update to OS X.8.1 or any other flavour. With Lion believe all downloads were OS X.7 and the one updated from there. So OS X.8 first.