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You need to do this before the grey screen appears. Simply follow the onscreen instructions to complete the install. Power on the Mac, then immediately hold option, command, p and r. Once the drive has finished formatting, quit Disk Utility to return to the OS X Utilities menu and select “Install OS X” as shown below.įinally select the freshly formatted hard drive / partition to set as the destination for the fresh install of OS X Yosemite.

Upgrade or Clean Install from the USB Flash Drive to your Macs. Select “Disk Utility”.Ĭhoose the hard drive or partition from the left side menu which you want to perform a clean Yosemite install, and then select the “Erase” tab. Choose the Format type as “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)”, name the drive (e.g. The USB is Bootable and will allow you to install Mac OS X. Now you’ll be presented with the “OS X Utilities” screen. Select “Install OS X Yosemite” as the drive to boot and hit Enter. While rebooting, hold down the Option key till the following boot selection menu appears. Insert your OS X Yosemite bootable USB drive into your Mac and reboot the system. Also, keep the OS X Yosemite bootable installer drive handy before you begin. Make sure you backup all your data before proceeding as the process requires formatting the Mac hard drive. Now, we’ll show you how to perform a clean OS X Yosemite install on your Mac in the following step-by-step guide (via OSXDaily). Last week, we showed you how to keep a physical copy of your Mac App Store digital download of OS X 10.10 Yosemite in the form of a bootable install USB drive, which comes in handy if you want to do a clean install of the operating system.

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