I have a HDD formatted in NTFS, will OSX installation autoformat to HFS+? Or do I have do do it beforupgrading?
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AFter HDD Upgrade, Does OSX Autoformat Drive?
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Format it using Disk Utility on the MacOS X installation disc before installing.
Read the blog post How to Perform a Clean Install of Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 and follow the steps to erase/format the drive before the installer really starts installing.