Wiping it clean?

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I've only had a Mac for about a year and have recently run into a problem where it wont go to sleep. I am forced to manually put it to sleep, otherwise it stays on all the time.

I also have alot of junk on my hard drive that I would rather just wipe out. Having come from the Windows world, I would normally just format my hard drive and reinstall Windows from scratch so that I have a clean system.

Is there a way to do this on the mac? If so, how do I format the hard drive and reinstall the Mac OS? Can anyone point me to detailed instructions or is it not that complicated?

thanks!
 
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thanks very much. This is very helpful . One question...what does "hold c" mean?
 
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Turn the machine off.....Start it up again and hold the "c" key down until you see the gear spinning. It spins for a while when you do this, so be patient.
 

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