06-18-2019, 10:18 PM
Unless something has changed and I missed the notice, no data is lost by installing an OS over an existing OS. I rarely do a clean installation. Ninety percent of the time I just update the existing OS. I have often re-installed because something did not go right the first time.
wowzer wrote:
it would seem that the restart/shutdown method still uses the internal SSD as a startup, then switches to the external 'bad' SSD.
How do you reinstall OSX without erasing the user content?