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The latest bout of frustration comes from a post on MacRumors titled “Lion Clean Install Requires Snow Leopard Disk?” that apparently quotes Steve Jobs responding to a users question regarding a clean install: Mac OS X Lion is around the corner, and mixed in with the excitement is some frustration based on a misunderstanding of the system requirements. Yes, you can still perform a clean install with the final release App Store version. Update: Lion is now available on App Store to download. Carry on for some background on the OS X Lion clean install nonissue. Only do this if you have a backup made and you are comfortable with formatting the Mac hard drive. Select the destination hard drive and install as usualĬhoosing a clean install will force the destination drive to lose all existing data.Exit out of Disk Utility, and back at the Mac OS X Utilities screen, select “Install Mac OS X”.

Select the destination hard drive from the left side and click on the “Erase” tab, set the format as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” and click “Erase”.Choose “Disk Utility” from the Mac OS X Utilities screen.Boot from the aforementioned Lion installer by holding “Option” at boot and selecting the external boot installer drive.Download OS X Lion from the Mac App Store and make a bootable OS X Lion installer from a USB drive.
