Step 7
If you want to burn a DVD, insert a blank DVD and click the Burn button (in my case I have a MacBook Air, so I don’t have a DVD writer attached, so I want to make a bootable USB drive).
Once you have burned the DVD, you can skip to Step 16to use it.
Step 8
Connect the USB stick – I used an 8GB one for this.
Step 9
Click on the USB device in the left column then click on Partition in the right hand section.
Step 10
From the Volume Scheme drop down box, select 1 Partition and select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) from the Format drop down.
Step 11
Click on the Options button and select GUID Partition Table, then click OK.
Step 12
Click on the Apply button – this will start to prepare the drive.
Step 13
Click on InstallESD,dmg from the left column and then click Restore.
Step 14
Drag InstallESD.dmg to the source box and drag the USB device to the Destination box.
Step 15
Click Apply and sit back and wait while the process completes.
Step 16
To use either the DVD (make sure it is in the drive) or the USB drive (make sure it is plugged in), then power on the Mac and hold down the Option key.
Step 17
Follow the onscreen instructions to do a clean install.
And that is it – Lion will then be installed completely cleanly.
So are you using Lion yet? What do you think of it? Let is know…..
How about creating a Clone of Mac boot volume. This can be done using third party Mac cloning tools like Stellar drive clone and CCC.
One ca select to copy other applications as well. I think it is a better and affordable option to create a bootable DVD for Mac Lion.