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How do I clean install Catalina?

How do I carry out a fresh/clean install of Catalina?

Posted on Jun 10, 2020 9:18 PM

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Posted on Jun 10, 2020 10:33 PM

Backup any files you want to preserve (or clone the whole drive as a backup to an external drive). Create a bootable flash drive, boot from it (with a new Mac you may have to enable external booting via the Recovery boot first), launch Disk Utility, make the internal SSD _device_ (not just the volume) visible and erase it as APFS (with GUID partition map), then install Catalina.


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372



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Jun 10, 2020 10:33 PM in response to Halserf

Backup any files you want to preserve (or clone the whole drive as a backup to an external drive). Create a bootable flash drive, boot from it (with a new Mac you may have to enable external booting via the Recovery boot first), launch Disk Utility, make the internal SSD _device_ (not just the volume) visible and erase it as APFS (with GUID partition map), then install Catalina.


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372



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