Erase my hard disk on Mavericks safely without affecting Osx.

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Erase my hard disk on Mavericks safely without affecting Osx.

I have installed Mavericks on my Macbook Pro.

I want to delete all my files (Restore). I have a back up on my Time Machine.

I erased using disk utility but by then even my OS was deleted , only option left with me was to use the time machine back up.

Instead I want a clean restored mac with nothing on hard disk apart from OSX Mavericks .

Is there any way i can do this without inserting Boot DVD?

PS: I have copy of OSX Mavericks.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Nov 28, 2013 3:39 AM

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Answer 1

tbirdvet

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Nov 28, 2013 4:38 AM in response to Hareeshsrk

On a clean erased dirve I guess you could do an internet recovery (option-command-R) at start up which would probably put back the system you had when purchased (ML?) and then you could upgrade to Mavericks again using your copy of Mavericks file.

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Nov 28, 2013 5:41 AM in response to Hareeshsrk

When you erase a disk, that's it. Everything is erased.

To achieve what you want, the best way is to start up from your recovery partition (CMD+R immediately after the startup chime, and hold until Mac commences startup). Then when started from your recovery partition, erase your disk with disk utility and download & install a new installation of Mavericks.

Obviously you will need a working web connection to download this and it will take a little time.

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