Hi Ramy, To do a full format and re install You will need an installer device, Then you boot the machine on to that and then under disk utilities you eraise the macintosh hd volume and then go back to utilities and start the new installation.
This of course will whipe the intire system volume and all the data you have on it. As for time machine if you back up everything then you could also back up the problems you have although less likely if your only backing up data.-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ramy Moustafa Sent: Saturday, 24 March 2018 12:24 AM To: mac mailing list <[email protected]> Subject: Making a fresh High sierra installation, but need my data, can i? Hi all: I noticed some bugs when using my mac-mini running highsierra, so, am thinking of making a fresh copy. if i will make a time machine backup, will it save all my files and apps that are on my c drive? and is it suggested to use? i mean if i will do this, will it be a fresh installation`? or i must kill my system drive and start installing the system, then installing my apps from scratch? also please, i can you tell me how i can for matting my System drive? it’s an SSd drive. Thanks in advance -- 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. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
