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Cant delete/remove windows 8 recovery disk
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1542551" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>First... the info regarding your Fusion drive is correct. Nothing to worry about there.</p><p></p><p>Second: Yes, booting with the Snow Leopard disk will wipe the drive completely clean but will not install Snow Leopard. Did you create a Mountain Lion boot disk? If not, you don't want to use that method until you do.</p><p></p><p>What you need to do in that case, is download Mountain Lion again from Apple but do not install it. Instead, create a Mountain Lion boot disk. You'll need an 8 GB flash drive and <a href="http://www.cultofmac.com/180925/how-to-make-a-bootable-disk-or-usb-drive-of-os-x-mountain-lion/" target="_blank">these instructions</a>.</p><p></p><p>After you've made the ML boot disk, you can use your Snow Leopard DVD to boot the machine and clean wipe the entire drive. After that, boot with the ML boot disk and install ML. That will install ML and also a new ML recovery partition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1542551, member: 46727"] First... the info regarding your Fusion drive is correct. Nothing to worry about there. Second: Yes, booting with the Snow Leopard disk will wipe the drive completely clean but will not install Snow Leopard. Did you create a Mountain Lion boot disk? If not, you don't want to use that method until you do. What you need to do in that case, is download Mountain Lion again from Apple but do not install it. Instead, create a Mountain Lion boot disk. You'll need an 8 GB flash drive and [URL="http://www.cultofmac.com/180925/how-to-make-a-bootable-disk-or-usb-drive-of-os-x-mountain-lion/"]these instructions[/URL]. After you've made the ML boot disk, you can use your Snow Leopard DVD to boot the machine and clean wipe the entire drive. After that, boot with the ML boot disk and install ML. That will install ML and also a new ML recovery partition. [/QUOTE]
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