<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 17, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Margaret Krakowiak wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>By clean install, do you mean erase the volume that</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I had done the installation on?</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Yes, clean install requires you erase the [ Volume/ Partition ] that you want to install too, Disk Utility will allow you to erase</DIV><DIV>only the Volume that you will be installing too. Boot into the Install disk, when the language screen come up, select the language</DIV><DIV>you will be using, on the next screen, go to the Menu Bar at the top of the monitor, and select Disk Utility, when Disk Utility launches</DIV><DIV>it will list each drive on your system, and also each Volume on each drive. You Select the Volume on the drive you will be installing</DIV><DIV>too, and it will only erase the one Volume..</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You should back up your Application Folder on that drive, if you have applications on it, that you want to keep, You should backup</DIV><DIV>the Documents Folder before erasing!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Somewhere before the installation start, you will be ask if want to use OS 9.2, say yes, if you plan on running any OS 9.2 Applications</DIV><DIV>and the installer does the rest. [DO NOT ARCHIVE THE OLD SYSTEM, IF IT HAS PROBLEMS YOU WILL BE SAVING THE PROBLEMS]</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Calvin<BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>