Gordon, Yes I get that, but if you go into recovery mode, you can erase the hard drive, which is why you need to have an install disc or some other medium of reinstalling the OS, if you don't, you're pretty much stuck.
Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 20, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net> wrote: > > You missunderstand me I think. This has nothing to do with Disk Usility at > all. It simply creates a bootable disk with the currently installed > operating system as its base. As for erasing your hard drive, that is not > possible. OS X will not permit you to erase the current boot device. > > Kind Regards > Gordon Smith > Information Technology Accessibility consultant > Providing Support For Young People Living With Sight Loss: Advice On > Accessible Information Technologies And Braille Transcription Services. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Josh Gregory <joshkar...@gmail.com > To: OS X & iOS Accessibility <mac-access@mac-access.net > Date sent: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 15:36:27 -0500 > Subject: Re: How to make a bootable Mavericks install drive | Macworld > > You could, but the only way that I know of using that method is disk utility, > if you do it before you do disk utility, you will erase the hard drive and > not be able to get back into it. I've done that. Not good. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 19, 2014, at 3:19 PM, Gordon Smith <gor...@mac-access.net> wrote: > > Forgive my late entrance conffth thread. But can you not just use the Apple > Recovery Assistant? That works well and is totally accessible. I have > Mavericks, Mkain Lion and Lion bootable USB keys here which were created used > Recovery Assistant. 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