How do I re-reinstall Mavericks?

i have a macbook late 2009 (6.1). i just upgraded with a new 240gb SSD, which I installed myself. I used my old harddrive to boot from, using CMND+R. i formatted the new SSD and installed a clean version of Mavericks to the newly formatted SSD. all was well. unfortunately, i used migration assistant and it brought over user preferences i did not want. so, i want to reformat my new SSD drive, again, and reinstall Mavericks, again.
however, taking the same steps as i described above produced very different results the second time. this time, i am unable to reformat the SSD, and it returns an error saying that it cannot unmount the disk because it is locked. i tried following other posts, which are not definitive and extremely unhelpful, and the advice of repairing or verifying the disk does not work. the error message returned when i try this is that "live repair" of the disks is not supported.
so, to re-cap... the problem here is definitely not an old harddrive. and the CMND+R recovery has not helped me yet. i cannot revert to an older OS like mountain lion because on both the new internal SSD and the old external drives have Mavericks on them.
i can start the computer and work in the new SSD 100%. but like i said, i want a clean install this is not negotiable. i want the old user preferences off, and i want to build my new harddrive from the ground up with only fresh downloads, apps, etc. so how can i accomplish this?

With your external plugged in, boot up using the alt (option) key... It will take a little while but should present you with the option to boot into the SSD / HDD. Providing that both drives are bootable. Select the drive which you DON'T want to wipe clean allow it to boot, once in and at your desktop. Open Disk Utility in Utilities. Highlight the drive that you do want to wipe/repair/verify. See if the options are now there and available to you.
To boot using alt (option):
Power down the mac, press alt and then press power. Keep alt pressed down until after the chimes.

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