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Now, if your Mac has one single drive, not broken into parts, and it is the drive where every file you own is stationed, as well as your system, they your only choice is to clean install on the startup drive. There are a few ways to correctly run a clean install and they mainly depend on how your Mac hard drives are structured.
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To complete the clean install procedure, you'll need: We'll also give you main requirements below. If you were able to run the previous macOS High Sierra with no visible issues, you're probably fine.
#Cant install mac os x boot disk on internal drive how to#
How to prepare your Mac for the clean installīefore you do anything, check that your Mac is able to run Apple's new operating system. If you haven't, another good news: we'll take you through it step by step. If you did a clean install of macOS High Sierra last year, here's some good news: it's pretty much the same. Or maybe (and we get you) you just want that freshly-bought Mac experience again. The usual reasons are: system jut has started to affect your Mac’s performance, you need to make sure your old data is cleared, you’re selling a Mac or passing it to a new owner. Which is why if you feel like there’s a need for a purge - in the best meaning of this word - among your files and system leftovers, it makes more sense to run an clean install. Including the ones you don’t want anymore, and including some system junk left from the previous OS. You get a new desktop wallpaper and all your applications and files right where you left them. You’d usually simply roll the new macOS right over your old one.