If you’d rather install Mountain Lion without a bootable copy and keep your setup the way it is, refer to our general tutorial. Choose your Mac’s hard drive and begin installing Mountain Lion.īy following those steps, your Mac will be restored to Apple’s stock setup and all of your personal files will be gone. Once your Mac’s hard drive is erased, quit Disk Utility and go back into the Mountain Lion installer.(Make sure you have a backup first, just in case.) From the erase tab, choose “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” and wipe your drive. Inside the Mountain Lion installation tool, you can open Disk Utility and erase your Mac’s hard drive.
For a clean install of Mountain Lion on any compatible Mac, follow these steps: Now that you have a bootable copy of Mountain Lion, this drive/disk acts as a full-fledged setup tool for upgrading other Macs to the new OS.
