Will it wipe my entire hard drive by installing lion?

will it wipe my entire hard drive by installing lion?

And backing up is so simple. Buy an external Firewire hard drive, (not expensive but get one that will boot a Mac, like LaCie) format it as GUI in Disc Utility, download Carbon Copy Cloner (free, donations accepted) (or SuperDuper although I have not used that) and schedule a bootable clone for 9 am every day. That way, if you have trouble you can clone back the backup to your internal and be back where you were at 9 am - all documents, applications, settings, pictures, movies etc. etc. Everything.
(I tried restoring from the Recovery drive an TimeMachine but many of my Mail emails did not return.)

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    Quote from: killiach on 01-April-08, 09:51:25
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    Yes
    "Furthermore, do I need to make this an extended partition or primary?"
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    How should I approach this task?

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    If I do manage to figure out how to do what you have suggested will this restore my iPhoto Library and I assume maybe other files?
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    I'm running Snow Leopard at the moment, and would like to install Lion.
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    Thanks for ur answers.

    Not that I'm aware of. You can, however, grab the installer file and create a bootable USB thumb drive after downloading Lion and BEFORE you install it. Read here on how to do this.
    After downloading, I would let it install. Then reboot with the USB thumb drive, use Disk Utilities to wipe the drive and then install Lion from the thumb drive. Do a backup first.

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    Maybe it happened during the disabling of File Vault from Snow Leopard - I had to move a lot of files to get space enough for decrypting before using the encryption on Lion.
    I have seen somewhere that the multi version way of saving files is what takes up the space and that it can be disabled.
    How?

    Are you sure you don't have duplicate copies of the things you moved?
    Did the old sparsebundle containing the encrypted version of your home folder get deleted?
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  • I want to erase my hard drive and reinstall  lion server. Can someone help me out?

    i have a mac mini running lion server. I want to erase all the date and start fresh. When i try to reinstall Lion it does not show anything about lion server but jut Lion. I want to make sure I do it properly. It is also asking me in which hard drive to install Lion but im unsure.
    can someone help me out?

    Check in the app store under purchases both lion and server should show up there to download again.
    No need to erase both drives for a clean install just the drive you are using for the OSX. Though if you are truly starting a fresh then erase and reformat both.
    As for Upgrades. Yosemite is the only upgrade now available through the app store as is Server 4.0 for Yosemite. I have not tested the latest server yet and can not comment on it's reliability.
    Any server you set up should be thoroughly tested on a closed network before going live.
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  • Download Lion on 1 Hard Drive to Install on a 2nd Hard Drive?

    Good evening--sorry if this question was answered elsewhere but my discussions search for it did not find an answer.
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    Absolutely.
    Make a good backup of your main startup drive just in case bad things happen.
    Follow this advice to save the download on a thumb drive and avoid re-download in the future: https://discussions.apple.com/message/16639520#16639520

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  • Can somebody please advise urgently... I backed up my entire hard-drive of my macbook pro - just prior to installing osx mountain lion. I put everything into a folder on my desktop - then backed it up onto an external drive. Once this was done - i deleted

    Can somebody please advise urgently...
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    I'm pretty sure i made copies of of files/apps/folders etc - however not so sure now as i cant even start up my laptop!!!
    Can somebosy please help me urgently??!!!

    Got the exact same problem, and I also did this operation many times before, from 500Gb to 750Gb, and then from 750Gb to 1 Gb. Not My HD got a little such complaining about bad sectors when in windows bootcamp, but still runs fine though.
    So I bought a new 1Gb drive exactly same drive as the one thats getting sick. I did the clone thing, with super duper, CCC, DU, but no matter it will not boot when i move the new drive inside the macbook…….**** thing exuse me, but wasted so much time.
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  • Using Disk Utility to Clone/Duplicate entire hard drive.

    I have read many post that touch on this question but none have cleared up my questions, and many have just lead to more questions on my part.
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