Clean Install Options

I have kind of the same question the same model

Ok this is the deal I have been at this for three days. I ran a disk verification and told me that my hard drive disk needed reparied. I tried to repair it said to get as much stuff off that I can disk can't be repaired (it gave me a gray screen, with apple logo, and a bar at the bottom). Since Maverick just came out I thought I would get that OS from another mac I have and make a bootalbe flash drive. I have read how to do this did it manually and did it with third party software. When I start the mac and hit option key the only thing it showed was my mac HD and lion recovery. So I thought well I would just recover with lion then try bootalbe flash drive again. So I erased my Mac HD and then went into reinstall lion. It got all the way to the last ten min and flashed an error (did not give me an error code, just told me to start over. So I need to know what I am doing wrong or why the usb drive is not showing up with the maverick install. If you could help me out I would appreciate it very much (I have never had so much problem with a mac and I have had one since the 80's. Here are the sites I have already gone to and tried.

http://liondiskmaker.com

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6676

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1948

http://osxdaily.com/2011/07/08/make-a-bootable-mac-os-x-10-7-lion-installer-from -a-usb-flash-drive/

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2013/10/22/perform-clean-install-os-x-mavericks/

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mav ericks-usb-install-drive/

I hope someone can help me out there. I have also did all the apple support with the gray screen of death and I did and was able to retrive a lot of my files back. I also erased my hard drive and did another check and it said it was fine.

Thanks
Christopher Malaney
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)

I recommend using liondiskmaker. straight to the point

jykim0806 said:

Hello, I am running Mountain Lion on Macbook Pro late 2011 model, and I want to do do a clean update to Mavericks.
I did some research and I see many articles mentioning creating bootable disk drive for clean install, but is this necessary? Because when I had to clean reinstall Mountain Lion because of some problems, the installer already had the Disk Utility function during the setup which I could use for deleting files in my HDD.
What is the proper way of performing a clean install?

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LionDiskMaker never worked for me. They are saying it has a problem. I tried this process.

http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/23/create-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/

Worked like a charm. Its simple and easy.

Tip: Keep your flash drive's name as "Untitled" and make sure it is Mac OS Extended. If it doesn't then quickly format your flash drive in Disk Utilities, it will have the name "Untitled" and be Mac OS Extended by default.

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whackyninja said:

liondiskmaker never worked for me. They are saying it has a problem. I tried this process.

http://osxdaily.com/2013/10/23/create-os-x-mavericks-install-drive/

worked like a charm. Its simple and easy.

Tip: Keep your flash drive's name as "untitled" and make sure it is mac os extended. If it doesn't then quickly format your flash drive in disk utilities, it will have the name "untitled" and be mac os extended by default.

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