[X Newbies] Uninstalling OS X How to do it completely?

[John Erdman]

Sorry not to be clear. I was using "virgin" in the sense that there was 
no OS installed on that volume.  When I learned that OS X can't be 
uninstalled, I did your option b).   Most of the stuff I was saving 
there were photos, mp3's, and music notation files about 30 gigs or so. 
.  So it took  about three cups of coffee to complete the necessary 
transfers with my aging war horse.  Wiping the volume clean with the 
disk utility was a snap.

Thanks to all for the advice.

John
Back to normal now but still pissed with Keyspan!


> On assumption (b), it's probably easiest to copy your important files 
> to another volume, then follow the procedure outlined above. If you 
> don't know which those files are, then you're in trouble. Is that your 
> situation?