Q: wipe the HD clean and reinstall OS X
I want to wipe my old "slate clean" and start all over with my MacBook Pro which now runs Yosemite. Initially came with Snow Leopard. But the OSX install through App Store (Apple won't let me install from a bootable USB drive I have created , based on a third party website article), but over and over again, the OS X installs itself with ALL the existing user info, and data TOTALLY intact. Which in normal circumstances is great, but since I am trying to wipe the entire data clean and create a new, system, how am I to accomplish it, if it won't let me?
Should I be creating a new admin account user, and delete the old user account with all its files and folders? Will that work?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Posted on Dec 31, 2014 3:48 PM