Hi Yes you can, It’s a case of starting up on to the recovery partition using the Command and r keys, then select the disk utility option from the menus and then eraise the macintosh hd drive, don’t partition, just eraise the installed drive and then once that is done close disk utility and run the reinstall OS X option.
Hope that helps. From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sarai Bucciarelli Sent: Friday, 3 June 2016 4:16 AM To: 'Chris Blouch' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: my dad's mac Hi: Can I do a clean install from recovery? On May 31, 2016, at 8:26 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com<mailto:mehg...@icloud.com>> wrote: I'd first grab Malware Bytes, which is free and not, to my knowledge, on the App Store. Go to www.malwarebytes.org<http://www.malwarebytes.org/> to find the Mac installer for it. Run that and see what happens. I'd then either manually copy the important things, or do a Time Machine backup then manually restore once the OS is re-installed. Installing the OS isn't bad, actually. There are tons of guides on putting 10.10 or 10.11 (same process) on a thumb drive; from there, you'll boot into the thumb drive (so try to find a fast one), use its Disk utility to wipe your internal drive, then choose to install OS X on the thumb drive's version of the OS. It sound complicated, but it's really not once you do it once. Just be very sure to do all the backing up first. Finally, it could be that, well, it's a 2011 MacBook. It may just be old and slow. My mom has a 2012, and I replaced the hard drive with an SSD this year, plus doubled the ram to 8GB. It flies now! You might consider an upgrade like that, unless your dad wants to wait for the release rumored to be coming later this year when he can replace the machine with a new, or last-generation, model. On May 31, 2016, at 20:28, Sarai Bucciarelli <sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com<mailto:sarai.bucciare...@gmail.com>> wrote: Oh man! My dad’s 2011 MBP is messed up! Mackeeper is on it, and won’t go away! The mac is so darn slow! I want to reinstall the OS, format the HD and make it like a new computer. I’m not sure how to do this! I also need to figure out how to backup all his stuff, IE docs, photos, etc, bookmarks, etc and not restore the virus or what ever is going on. I don’t want to restore a bootable backup. I’m not sure what to do! Any ideas? Sarai D. Bucciarelli www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli<http://www.linkedin.com/in/SaraiDBucciarelli> -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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