Hi Greg Everyone is different.
My personal suggestion would be to go to the installer for Catalina which I would assume is in your /Applications folder. Once you have this running and you get the macOS utilities Scrole down to disk utilities and run it, Then once disk utilities is up and running Eraise the Macintosh HD Once that is done Close disk utilities Then go to the install macOS option in the utilities and continue the installation of your os from scratch on a blank drive. Hope that helps.-----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Greg Wocher Sent: Saturday, 21 December 2019 7:22 AM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Clean install question Hello, I have a quick question about doing a clean install. Is it better to erase the hard drive first and then install or just do the reinstall without erasing first? Thanks, Greg Wocher -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/C717D571-DEAF-4CF4-B95C-2CAB6D7C06F8%40gwocher.com. -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/macvisionaries/SY2PR01MB29874BF9B6646D539FCAB1598A2C0%40SY2PR01MB2987.ausprd01.prod.outlook.com.
