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Preparing for clean install of Mavericks
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1559767" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>Do you have a spare external hard drive? If so, you can do the following:</p><p></p><p>1. Format the external hard drive to Mac OS Extended Journaled (guid scheme).</p><p></p><p>2. Download Mavericks to your Mac Mini that already has Snow Leopard on it. The installer will download to your Applications folder. Make a copy of the installer and save it somewhere else such as in your documents folder.</p><p></p><p>3. Now double click the installer which is in your applications folder and direct it to install Mavericks on your spare external hard drive. That will make your spare external hard drive bootable. You can test it by booting your Mac Mini with it. After that, move the copy of the installer you copied to your documents folder to somewhere on the external hard drive that you can easily find.</p><p></p><p>4. Now when you're ready to install Mavericks to your Mac Mini, boot with the external hard drive, start the Mavericks installer and direct it to install to your Mac Mini.</p><p></p><p>I recently did exactly what I described above to do a clean install of Mavericks on to my 21.5" iMac.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1559767, member: 46727"] Do you have a spare external hard drive? If so, you can do the following: 1. Format the external hard drive to Mac OS Extended Journaled (guid scheme). 2. Download Mavericks to your Mac Mini that already has Snow Leopard on it. The installer will download to your Applications folder. Make a copy of the installer and save it somewhere else such as in your documents folder. 3. Now double click the installer which is in your applications folder and direct it to install Mavericks on your spare external hard drive. That will make your spare external hard drive bootable. You can test it by booting your Mac Mini with it. After that, move the copy of the installer you copied to your documents folder to somewhere on the external hard drive that you can easily find. 4. Now when you're ready to install Mavericks to your Mac Mini, boot with the external hard drive, start the Mavericks installer and direct it to install to your Mac Mini. I recently did exactly what I described above to do a clean install of Mavericks on to my 21.5" iMac. [/QUOTE]
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