On Feb 14, 2010, at 10:44 AM, William Spencer wrote:
My next steps are to reformat the main drive and then put everything back as it was. I assume that I need to boot from either the backup drive or the install disc in order to do the reformat and partition, but at that point is it better to reinstall from the install disc or copy the backup back onto the main HD? Logically I can't see how to install from the install disc and still be able to get all the settings where they were, since the drive I'm altering will be empty and won't have anything for the installation to archive-and-install.
Do a clean install, and at the end it asks you if you want to transfer your data and settings from another Mac or hard drive. Make sure the backup is plugged in and select it as the source.
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