Wipes my HD?

[AmbiguousNinja]

I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to installing a new OS (I don't really do it too often) but I really want Lion and to keep all of the files I have on snow leopard. If I do a clean install will it wipe my HD? How do I clean install? Are there other options of installing Lion? And finally, will Snow leopard be wiped from my HD (just the OS, not my files) when lion is installed? Thanks!

 

[Runt888]

The easiest option is to install Lion on top of Snow Leopard. All of your files, applications, settings, etc will remain.

It's more work if you want to do a clean install (but generally a clean install means you completely wipe your HD and install from scratch).

When you install Lion, any unnecessary Snow Leopard OS files will be removed.