Reinstall Lion

[Wilso1]

Greetings All, I have issues with my 27" iMac. If I insert the Lion disc in the drive to install it will I lose all my added applications?
I've been advised this will iron out the issues.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

No Mac coming with Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion has physical restore media included.

OS X: About OS X Recovery

If you want to make a bootable installation medium, you can follow these steps:

• Lion DiskMaker

• Create bootable installation medium for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion​

Anyway, if you just do a reinstallation without formatting the volume/partition the OS is stored on, all data and applications will be left untouched.
If you do a clean install, all data and applications will be lost.

But then again, why have you been advised to iron out what issues? Maybe a reinstallation is not needed and even if, you can always redownload the applications you have installed or fall back onto the installers you might have backed up.

 

[benwiggy]

Greetings All, I have issues with my 27" iMac. If I insert the Lion disc in the drive to install it will I lose all my added applications?

As said, there is no disk. There is a Recovery Partition instead.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718

I've been advised this will iron out the issues.

Most problems can be resolved without recourse to reinstalling the OS.

 

[Wilso1]

27" iMac issues

Thank you for your replies.
I tried to install Windows 7 64bit with bootcamp but after about2 hours wait ,I decided to abort the install as it seemed to have frozen.
It did not like that 1 bit as, now , i cannot access bootcamp as it just bounces in the dock & wont let me access it. I will appreciate any advice.
Again,Many thanks for the help.