Hi, If one does as you've mentioned and somehow wiped the entire drive including the Recovery Partition, then you would need to use cmd-shift-r in order to access the Internet startup and do your install from there. Things to note:
* an entire wipe is more or less impossible unless you are first in a separate startup system or within the Recovery Partition as you can't format the drive of a running system. * I'm fairly sure that you need an ethernet connection to run the Internet startup system, although, I could be corrected on this one. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jun 22, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Daniel McGee <danielmcgee...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello Chris, am glad to hear that by performing a clean install you are > experiencing lots of improvements. Out of interest, before you did the clean > install did you upgrade from any previous version or versions of OSX? > > As for myself, for the clean install folks this may sound crazy but I've been > doing straight updates from Lion and as of yet, I haven't experienced any > problems with any upgrade. "If it aint broken, don't fix it." I guess that's > my motto. lol > However, I may consider performing one when the new OSX comes out in the > Autumn. Partly, I'm keen to experience it myself without any sighted help and > because well to get rid of some of the rubbish that my system may of > accumulated since 2011 when I brought my MBP. Like Chris, I could do with a > bit of a speed boost myself and so think I'll give it a shot come autumn! . > > Chris, and others I have a question about clean installs. Sure, I know why it > is a good idea to create the installer on a flash drive but my question is > this: If one was in a situation where they didn't have a flash drive for > whatever reason and they erased/wiped and reformatted the hard drive that is > on there system and restarted the Mac computer and held down command R to > bring up the recovery partition, Would it be possible to install OSX from the > recovery partition by obviously having an internet connection to download the > OS and go from there to setup there new system. > > Basically, what I am trying to say is that without any backup media of an > installer would it still be possible to clean install OSX with just the > recovery partition and an internet connection without nothing else. As a side > note: obviously you wouldn't do this but what would happen if a novist > completely wiped there Mac OS restarted, heard the chine sound and waited. > Would it just simply be well... broken? Hence, why a backup media of the > installer would certainly be a life saver. > > Thanks for any answers in advance. > > Daniel > On 22 Jun 2014, at 11:21, Christopher Hallsworth <christopher...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello everybody >> Well my clean install of Os X 10.9 Mavericks is going very well. My startup >> time has been dramatically improved thanks to the clean install from over a >> minute to about half that time maybe less. It certainly can help to do a >> clean install if you have issues like that. And when I say clean install I >> mean that. Restructure your disc and reinstall the operating system from >> scratch. As you have seen from my note the other day I used my USB flash >> drive with the Mavericks Installer created with Diskmakerx rather than the >> recovery partition. I like to have my installer on file in case my internet >> is out of action which would be required if installing from the recovery >> partition since the installer base image isn't actually stored on the >> partition. >> -- >> Christopher Hallsworth >> Student at the Hadley School for the Blind >> www.hadley.edu >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
