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Formatting and Updating to Tiger

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Fourbin

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Aug 28, 2004
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Philadelphia, PA
I've been dyyying to get Tiger to give me a reason to format my Powerbook hard drive. However as I know with previously being a Windows user that with updates you would have to have the original OS installed. Must I have Panther installed to install Tiger once I receive it?

After answering that can someone give me a step-by-step on how to format this beast without having any issues? Thanks much..
 
No.
In fact when you boot from the Tiger CD's (put it in, restart and hold the c key), you will be given the option to format and/or partition the drive. And then Tiger will simply install.
Welcome to the sensible, well-built world of Apple! :)
 
Remember that writing random 0's and 1's after formating takes AGES... I learnt that the hard way.
 
EGT said:
Remember that writing random 0's and 1's after formating takes AGES... I learnt that the hard way.
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Imagine if you could do dual pass 64-way overwrite. How long would that take?
 
We're having the reformat/clean install debate in at least two other threads. Why are you "dying" to reformat your hard drive?
 
TWO?

IJ Reilly said:
We're having the reformat/clean install debate in at least two other threads. Why are you "dying" to reformat your hard drive?
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I think the number is much higher than that by now!

Why is this such a sought after topic? It really is not THAT big of a deal.
 
IJ Reilly said:
We're having the reformat/clean install debate in at least two other threads. Why are you "dying" to reformat your hard drive?
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Does it really bother you that much? To tell you the truth I would not only like a clean install of Tiger but I run a slew of music production programs and I am having problems with older VSTs and plugins that I installed and trashed in the past. Is that good enough reason?
 
IJ Reilly said:
We're having the reformat/clean install debate in at least two other threads. Why are you "dying" to reformat your hard drive?
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I'm going to format too. I have so much rubbish that's collected on here since 2003 and it'll be great to clean it all out. Most of my 'actual' stuff is backed up, so it won't be a lengthy procedure.

In other news, the place I'm getting Tiger from claims it'll arrive in 2 days :eek:
They probably mean that they'll get it in stock then, rather than actually getting it to me by then :rolleyes:
 
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